NOTABLE SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1939, Page 4

NOTABLE SERVICE

SIR WILLIAM PERRY’S FINE RECORD MEAT BOARD FAREWELL. TEXT OF ILLUMINATED ADDRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following is the text of the illuminated address, signed by all members and electoral committee delegates of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, presented to Sir William Perry yesterday on the occasion of his retirement from the board:— New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, Wellington, August <3l, 1939. Sir William Perry. Dear Sir William, Following your decision to retire from the board, the members and delegates desire in this form to place on record their high appreciation of your services to the sheep farmers of this Dominion.

These have been demonstrated not only during your lengthy memberships of the board, but in your distinctive work in the improvement of the breeding of sheep, which is reflected in the quality of our stock. Though severing your active connection with the board, we are confident that your interest in its work will not lessen.

The undersigned wish to add a tribute to your personal qualities, of which they have had long and pleasant experience, because you are a foundation member of this board. For this reason in particular you will be greatly missed. We Join in conveying to Lady Perry and your good self our sincere wishes for your future health and happiness. In acknowledging the presentation, Sir William Perry said he found it necessary to pull out on account of his nerves, which were getting him at the moment. He was pleased to have received this recognition from the board. Always he had tried to do his duty. He had been, on a good many bodies, always with the view of trying to help the farming industry, but age and the disability he suffered had weakened his constitution to a certain extent, and though he was very healthy at the present moment, he felt it was only fair to pull out and allow someone else to take his place. It was done with great' regret, but he considered it to be his duty. The members of the board were splendid men and he would look back on the pleasures of his association with them as long as he lived; Their united interests were for the benefit of the country, and now that he was no longer a member he felt he could say the country had appreciated what the board had done. The staff filled the bill, every man in. his. place, and he thought it would not be possible to get another staff to do what it was doing.