(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MEAT FOR THE ARMY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 106, 6 May 1915, Page 8

(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MEAT FOR THE ARMY

COLONIAL SUPPLEES AND PRICES. LONDON, sth May. Mr. Rtmciman, President of the Board of Trade, replying to Mr. Will Thorne (Labour) in the House of Commons, said that the price of New Zealand and New South Wales meat was fixed by the local Governments. • The Imperial Government had requisitioned the whole of the Australian and New Zealand meat supplies, and proposed to place the surplus over the Army's requirements upon the market for civilians. He had asked .Mr. Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Sir Thomas Robinson (AgentGeneral for Queensland), and ,Sir Montague Nelson (of Nelson Bros,) te report on the method of placing the meat on the market . and tho conditions of. sale, in order te prevent an undue increase in the price such as might arise through a shortage in supplies. The Government was now considering their report, and their expert knowledge.would.be of much advantage to the national interests. PRICE OF BISCUITS INCREASED (Received May 6, 9.25 a.m.) -MELBOURNE, This. Day. The price of sweetened biscuits has increased a halfpenny and unsweetened a penny per pound wholesale. DIVORCE CASE PETITION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL DISMISSED. (Received May 6, 10 a.m.) LONDON, sth May. Mrs. Kate Borrow personally petitioned for leave to appeal against a decree nisi made by the Supreme Court of Fiji. The petition was dismissed.