MEAT CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1940, Page 9

MEAT CONTROL

MEASURES IN GREAT BRITAIN. NEW ZEALAND APPOINTEES. A recent issue of "The Farmer and Stockbreeder" provides some details of the appointment, of Messrs H. S. E. Turner, formerly manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, and Mr R. S. Forsyth. London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, as directors of live stock and home-produced meat and director of imported meat respectively. The journal says that (following the resignation of Sir Francis Boys from the position of director of live stock and meat control) it was decided, in view of the immensity of the undertaking, to divide the responsibility by having a director of live stock and home-produced meat and a director of imported meat. The appointments had been made as follows:— Director of live stock and homeproduced meat—Mr H. S. E. Turner. Director of imported meat —Mr R. S, Forsyth. Deputy director of imported meat— Mr Harold Jones.

Mr H. S. E. Turner was previously deputy director of live stock and homeproduced meat and was at one time a member of the Home Civil Service. He served as a deputy director and. later, as a director in the former Ministry of Food in the Great War. He subsequently left the Civil Service and went into business as manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Co., Ltd. For the next 17 years he was responsible for the operations of six meat works spread throughout the Dominion.

On the outbreak of war Mr Turner, in accordance with a pre-arranged plan, returned to London to become deputy director in the meat live-stock branch of the Ministry of Food. Mr Forsyth was previously London manager of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Mr Jones was a director of W. Weddell and Co., Ltd., meat and produce importers, but since the war has ceased to take any active part in the conduct of that business. When this announcement was made at the Ministry of Food, it was stated that both new directors were connected with the New Zealand meat business.