THE MEAT TRADE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 8

THE MEAT TRADE

■'•'. f\ SHQiJLD.i it 'be 'RationalisedV fIIWEBESTING' 'dEßAt'e. ; PAK.LIA- : - : : ; J ':'%': ; "¥:;'.,,: ; .;'\i:MENT;-^^: : :^ ; :,^-:; : r:':-> ■ In'? the, House, of -Representatives .some:.jdaysiago;llr; Buchanan,:3l.P.' for -Wai-;, .iiarap'a , : asted. the .Prime. Minister ;..whe- ; - his: attention ; had ,been : ; called, to' a ietatemerit i published in. ..the -' oi>August/IQ,-ldlO/,by ;av former': : !resident,pfjNe.w. f Zealand, who .is:'noiv re- , t'eiding in: : theiArgeritihe, that;the'■.Ameri- ;: can''triiste;have captured:..the?-meat trade : there 'toysuch:,ari.■extent: that no'-,settler •can (get me'at.'frozeri .on.his oSvri account; ; and; when'.'he:"expecls ; <to. bring .down: the ;: .- JPreyentiph, ot:.Tr.usts.'Bill ■which, wasVpror., ''■". !■.;■■:■ ! -'-;V ■•'.'•■■'.' '■■ :;|.lir:'TeplyitheiHon;. T. iMackenzie (Min-' ■iister; for Apiculture);stated 1 in. the House yesterday;■.that, hel'.hadr read .the: state-': .nient- ini'question.'".' "The';imporljance :pf '.' ifreedomvof'; competition f to,!. : .the; .meatgrowers'and-- to , those':.interested in the '."meat'r.trajde of.:Nejv.;Zealarid,'f::he'.contin- ■ »ed^'-''is;isuch.; that .should; any; American '. ( combinatibn;endeavpur..t6contrpl:the:New' ': .'Zealand: meat marketVthe House will be ,)«onsnlted.' as ■,tp....whether,,the..whble. ex-' ..'jortf meat 'trade '.of''.this; country.-, should; .'•not '.be:nationalised. \,The, Prevention of • iTrusts Bill ',will -,be.' introdubed'at; an Nearly .'■iaxts"<-&' : : 1 .::.-;.:: ; r:-;';.i;t,^:;-:::;..; 1 :...; ; ;,; :■■:-■■■■ ;/.;(:, v

: VSpeaking :■ in'■;'.the' House .yesterday:.the' Eon. T. Mackenzietßaidthat'hp had. com- j \municated witK'the. Consul'for the'-:AfgenV ; ' ! tinfl'.\fqr:;'.Neff' i rZealand,;'.on',tho : .subject;'; What: gentleman'!had regretted' that he: coi^dr.not: 'give any reliable; data: on, the question'?. ; He .knew,- however,, that the .'Americans had:tried to acquire'some of -. the important:meat:works..there, but.evi■dently.they.had not been successful.'Tho /people scpmeil : :tq: be.;satisfled <:tKe -'dividends which theywere : get-. . Wng.jJ'./Mr. Mackenzie, next : said : ; that .a' Home .report hid stated that: it was: just ppssiblev that in - the .future , th» "Ameri-;-cans,. , ; .with - their. ■ vigorous.. /methods, : inighti;move in; the, direction: of : securing, combinations.: . The Government, her coil-'- , : tiiiued;;iwas.', quite, alive.to'the necessity, of seeing that-so' undue combination vrtis .aUowed.to arise in New' Zealand.. ■•.:.■,

:' !■■ Subsequently Mr.. Mackenzie ; statodi' fthatP. ; 'at: one '-time- when .:he represented.; the meat trade in tho Old Coun'iry, he',had. come to,think that the industry ;; shonld 'be nationalised ■ and "had. '■ goneMinto •.details of,- a'?scheme.:• Eefer- 1 - wg.i'o .the'6tatoirient of a-gentleman nowi . lesiding-in London ;. that,: .the ! careless; dressing': of .New Zealand .meat-was , responsible for the price paid for it ..being. 2d- a stone less than it .would be other''wise.'.' Mr;: Mackenzie said he; hardly . credited ; it.. It might be; a "try-on", on' the.:part of .thV buyers. ::1-- .;-. \;. :■■■'.:'. .