MORRIS COMPANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 2

MORRIS COMPANY

APPOINTMENT OF RESIDENT

REPRESENTATIVE.

Mr S. G. K. Smallbone, Managing Director of Morris Industries Exports Ltd., Oxford, England, announces the appointment of Mr Donald K. Leed as the company's resident factory representative in New Zealand. The appointment has been considered advis-

able owing to the increasing tendency towards local assembly and the import regulations recently announced by the New Zealand Government. Mr Leeds’s appointment will be welcomed in New Zealand for he has had several years’ experience in dealing with the technical requirements of "C.K.D.” shipments to various parts of the world and this specialised knowledge now to be placed at the disposal of the New Zealand distributors of. Morris products will ensure able supervision, in local assembly arrangements.

Prior to his five years’ experience at home with. Morris Industries Exports Ltd., Mr Leeds was factory representa-

tive in Australia and New Zealand for Morris Commercial Cars Ltd., and subsequently, on the death of the late Mr Turley Jones, was acting factory representative for M.I.E. Ltd. Having had altogether nine years’ resident experience in this part of the world, he is fully acquainted with the company’s distributors, and the prevailing conditions. Mr Leed sailed for New Zealand at the end of July.