Another Long-Time
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Bp Man Retires
Mr. James Burns (son of the founder, the late Sir Jame§ Burns) has retired from the position of managing director of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., which he had occupied for 44 years. He now is 85, He re mains chairman of the company.
Mr. Joseph Mitchell, now In his nineties, retired last year from the post of general manager, after 75 years in the BP service.
The Burns-Mitchell control of the BP organisation extended qver a long period of phenomenal growth, probably without parallel in Austra
lian history.