FOOD CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1942, Page 4

FOOD CONTROL

IN EVENT OF EMERGENCY POST FOR MR L. J. SCHMITT. SUBORDINATE APPOINTMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The appointment of Mr L. J. Schmitt, Secretary of Supply, as Dominion Controller of Supplies, is announced by the Hon. R. Semple. Mr Schmitt will be assisted by a Deputy-Dominion Controller in the person of Mr J. E. Thomas, Food Controller, and the following regional controllers of supplies: —Auckland and Auckland Provincial District, Mr A. H. Honeyfield, manager of the Internal Marketing Department, Auckland, Wellington, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson and Marlborough provincial districts, Mr F. A. Bridges, accountant in the Food Controller’s Office, Wellington; Christchurch and Canterbury provincial district, Mr R. E. Macpherson, Wheat and Flour Controller, Christchurch; Dunedin, Otago and Southland provincial districts, Mr H..F. Larsen, District Officer of the Industries and Commerce Department, Dunedin. Mr Semple said that the Dominion Controller, in the event of an enemy attack or other disaster creating a state of emergency in New Zealand, would assume full control of bulk supplies of essential commodities and would be responsible for their distribution in the best interests of the affected district and the country as a whole. The regional controllers would work under the direction of the Deputy-Domihion Controller, and their chief function would be to ’assist the supply committees of the various Emergency Precautions Services within their districts, in the direction of requisitioning bulk supplies of any controlled and essential commodities. The E.P.S. supply committees would themselves be empowered to requisition retail supplies. Other Dominion controllers appointed to assist in the National Emergency Precautions scheme al’e the Dominion Controller of Communications, Mr J. Young, Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department; Dominion Controller of Lighting, Mi' F. T. M. Kissel, Electricity Controller; Dominion Fire Controller, Mr R. Girling Butcher, Inspector of Fire Brigades; Dominion Controller of Transport, Mr C. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport and Dominion Controller of Hospitals. Dr. M. Watt, Director-General of Health.