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Mr. LA. Macfarlane in 1940. Hie position at Wellington is still vacant. The work of my headquarters colleague and deputy, Mr. M. W. Young, Senior Fisheries Officer, has been in the main connected with various special wartime developments which affect the fishing industry in relation to matters administered bv other Departments. He has represented the Marine Department as adviser to the Bureau of Industry in connection with the licensing of fishermen and other members of the fishing industry under the Industrial Efficiency Act, to the Oil Fuel Controller, the Food Controller, and defence services, and during the current year to an increasing degree he has been largely responsible for providing information on the fishing industry to the Rehabilitation Department and its ancillaries. The fundamentally important work of the Statistics Section has been carried on under Mr. Young's supervision. With regard to this part of the branch, the excellent services rendered by Miss A. E. White, in charge of the Section, merit a special word of appreciation. A. E. Hefford, 27th July, 1945. Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Director of Fisheries Research.

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