MEAT IMPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1940, Page 6

MEAT IMPORTS

CONTROL ADMINISTRATION IN BRITAIN POSTS OF MESSRS FORSYTH AND TURNER. SUCCESSORS TO SIR FRANCIS BOYS. i.By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Further information relating to the appointments of Messrs Turner and Forsyth have been received by mail from London. Sir Francis Boys resigned from the post of Director oi Meat and Livestock on January 31. The Ministry of Food explained that Sir F. Boys, who is seventy years of age. was Director of Meat Supplies in the last war and it had been well understood that, while he was prepared to return to get the new scheme of control working, he wished subsequently to make way for a younger man. This he had done and the Minister was indebted to him for his workin preparing a scheme, which incidentally is always referred to inside the Ministry as the Boys Scheme —a measure of recognition accorded to its author within the Department. As the work of controlling supplies of meat is so heavy —too heavy for one man —and is divided naturally into two sections, the Minister appointed to succeed Sir F. Boys.' Mr H. S. E. Turner, as Director of Livestock and Home-Produced Meat, and Mr R. S. Forsyth as Director of Imported Meat. Both have had considerable experience of the meat trade, both in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand. Mr Turner was formerly New Zealand manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company and Mr Forsyth was formerly London Manager to the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board.