FOOD CONTROLLERS
New Zealanders in Britain HE men who control Britain’s supply of food and clothing range from a retired Lieut.-Colonel to a philatelist, and include three New Zealanders. Although they are not in uniform, these controllers fight a battle every bit as important as any on land or sea. Here are the men: Sir Harry Shackleton is head of the wool supplies. With a deputy controller and eight other men he directs the buying, rationing, and selling abroad of all British wool stocks. Sir Percy Ashley, younger brother of the late Sir William Ashley, the Birmingham economist, controls all supplies of cotton. He has a famous collection of stamps. Mr. H. E. Davis, born in Otago, has control of Britain’s butter supplies. He was London manager of the New Zealand Dairy Sales Division when war broke out. In normal times 32 per cent. of Britain’s butter imports comes from New Zealand. Mr. H. S. E. Turner, once manager of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company and later Director of Live Stock and Home Produced Meat, and Mr, R. S. Forsythe, Director of Imported Meat, are the two men who control Britain’s meat supplies for the duration of the war,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 4
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199FOOD CONTROLLERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 47, 17 May 1940, Page 4
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