MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 4

MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS.

WHEW THEY ABE DANGEROUS. ?ir .ioseph ward-. apixiax. (By Telegraph.—Special to the -Star.-) rKTOy. Tuesday. Speaking to a large jrathenng.ier.c.tlii. evening. Sir Joseph Ward said he was deadly opposed to any trust ox monopoly that affected the food supplies of"the country. Ho was against anything in the shape of a meat trust, -wietjier by Americans o r anybody else.' So esxation conld bn taken to free eo«p*t_£o_i for the purchase of meat or any other produce by any peopled cither within the Dominion or beyond. Tree and open competiton was the life of trade, and. it was in the intercirts of the settlors of the. Dominion that no disability _ho__l ■be put in the way of free and open etm petition for the purchase of sheep or any other form of produce. If"aßY attempt were made by Americans et others to monopolise or try to nMmopelisc the meat trade of this country hy _ecuring frojsen meat works or by (hiring out of competition any of t_ie exitt. ing fro7„ui meat works, then it: -wonl. clearly he tho duty of the. StateWjmerciefc all the powera.poiSsM .> to $cenmt, anything of the kind beingwoiild give his active assistaiiee' td-tiris end.