The retirement of Mr L M Sherwood, who was industrial manager of the South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd, featured in The Fiji Times on August 1, 1962.
He retired after more than 44 years of service with the CSR company.
Mr Sherwood joined the CSR as a chemist in 1913, after serving at Australian mills and refineries. He arrived in Fiji in 1931.
He first served as a chemist in the Labasa and Rarawai (Ba) mills and was later promoted to mill manager (chief chemist) at Penang mill, Rakiraki in 1937, a position he held until December 1, 1945, when he was posted to Nausori as conjoint mill manager and industrial officer.
At the end of 1947, he relinquished his post as mill manager to devote his whole time as industrial officer to the affairs of employees and cane growers. Subsequently he was appointed industrial manager.
Mr Sherwood was the first president of the Fiji Employers Consultative Association and was re-elected for a third term on July 26.
He was immediate past president of the Fiji Bowling Association, a game which he took up in 1945. Prior to that, he was the secretary of three different golf clubs in Fiji — at Labasa, Ba, and Rakiraki.
He was also the alternative director of South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd and Rewa Rice Ltd and director of Building Finance Ltd.
Mr and Mrs Sherwood continued to live at Nausori where they had been residing the previous 17 years.
He was succeeded by Mr D S Woodman, who was the assistant industrial manager at the time. Mr Woodman joined the company in 1950 and served as a shift chemist at Nausori, Rarawai and Penang Mills. Mr Woodman was appointed as the mill manager at Penang in 1959 and served there until 1961 when he was posted to Nausori as assistant to the industrial manager for Fiji.
