WOOL CONTROLLER
APPOINTMENT EXPECTED
LORD BARNBY MENTIONED .
(Received November 15, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, November 14.
The -"Yorkshire Observer" says the •Government is considering the appointment of a wool controller to be responsible for the distribution of the supply to the whole of ■ the Allies and the Empire .and would be, in effect, a w;orld woolbuyer for the Allies.
It is likely that Lord Barnby will be appointed. The appointment will not interfere with, the position pf Sir Harry, Shackleton as. controller for Britain. "■ \
* > * ' .*>.'"■ 7 , Lord Barney is the; head of the Bradford wool firm of Francis Willey and Compariy, Bradford, a firm well known in the New Zealand 'trade with a, branch established here. He was reciaUed from active service on Galli-.
'' /'.poll in 1915 to act as Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores (clothing), was in : N the following year appointed Controller of /Wool Supplies under the War Department, and organised the purchase and distribution of the British and colonial wool clips.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 10
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