THE MEAT TRUST
SCHEME TO FIGHT IT. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Dunedin. June i. In referring to the controlling or tho nrrangimr of' prices in a speech at the South Island Dairy Association dinner, the Hon. \V. D. S. MaeDonald said, he had received information from England which led him to believe (lint New Zealand was going to ,be asked to help Britain to. light the Meat _ Trust. They would have to come to a standing agreement to sell the produce' of tho Dominion at a certain price in London, and if the triist'brought its prices down they would havo to beat it on its own ground. A suggestion on these lines had come from England. He was not yet prepared to disclose the exact terms, but he was calling the leading producers together to discuss matters bearing on the welfare of the people of this country.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 215, 5 June 1919, Page 5
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146THE MEAT TRUST Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 215, 5 June 1919, Page 5
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