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IN further development of the organization which would be set up by the Government in the event of war to bring about an increase in food production in Great Britain, Mr. W. Gavin has been appointed agricultural adviser designate to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Mr. W. Gavin has already served in the Ministry of Agriculture, having been appointed in 1916 to act as assistant to the late Hon. E. G. Strutt, who was agricultural adviser throughout the war of 1914–18. Mr. Gavin afterwards became secretary and deputy director of the Army Cattle Committee, director of flax production and director of land reclamation. He is now the agricultural adviser to Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., a director of Strutt and Parker Farms, Ltd., a director of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, a member of council of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, a trustee of the Lord Wands-worth Agricultural College, and an ‘appointed’ member of the executive of the Potato Marketing Board.
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Mr. W. Gavin, C.B.E.. Nature 144, 410 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144410a0
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