NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1153, 14 June 1911, Page 10

NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUST.

A NEW ZEALAND MAN'S VIEWS. A very emphatic statement regarding the Meat Trust was made to a Dominion iropoftei' by the heart of a meat freezing ami exporting-concern.' "1 do not believe," ho said, "that the Trust lias ever put a foot in New Zealand. I cannot Rive credence to the rumours to the effect that they are here. Who have started these Tumours? And what grounds liave they for saying what they do'f I Uavc never seen any trace 'of the Trust."

Proceeding:! ho said that he thought Australia would afford a better field for the Trust than New Zealand would. He did not think it was an easy matter for the Trust to establish itself in any place where there were people who opposed it. •He 'thought that very little real consideration hacl been given to the question of what amount.of harm wonjd be done by the organisation if it got a footing in the country. He did not think it would do n great deal of liarm. It his company, liad something to sell and the' Trust was the highest bidder, ho would not hesitate to take its offer, He wished, lie said, that some of the Now Zealand producers' organisations would tako a leaf out of the Trust's book'-in one diri-fction —the regulation of supplies to the London markets. "You notice," he said, "when our supplies and Australia's are going in heaviest, the Trust's supplies are next to nothing. Then when our supplies are falling off, and are low, thsy put in what thoy have teen holding." "Our meat," he continued, "has been in very close touch with the Trust's meat for some time. The two, in a. sense, go hand in hand. Our mutton and lamb is the best imported by England. The Argentine chilled beef is the best of that class of meat which goes into tho country. Consequently, tho butchers who aim ot selling the best meat buy Argentine chilled beef and New Zealand lamb and mutton, and thus the two are associated,"