MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4369, 13 October 1916, Page 5

MEAT EXPORT TRADE.

COM PETITION IN DOMINION. \RMOUB COMPANY'S ADVENT. ■WORKING IN THE OPEN." One remit ot the rapidly growing importance of the meat export trade in New Zealand is an announcement that the Armour Meat Packing Conipanv of Chicago is beginning operations in the Dominion, with headquarters at Christchurch. . An indication of the intentions of the company was given in a statement made at Christchurch last week •’ by Air. N. W'. Kingdom general manager of Armour and Co., Ltd. (Australasia) In an interview. Mr. Kingdon denied that the Armour Company is a meat trust. "We are here to do business in the same way as otner firms,” he said. "We have got nothing to hide. We are coming right out into the open, and putting ah our card* on the table." A further reference. to a suggestion that had been made to the effect, that die company was a trust caused Mr. Kingdom to remark: "You've got State-owned railways and many other meat companies', some of which are co-opera-tive. some have anti-trust legislation, so we couldn’t have everything our own way. even if we wanted to. In repining to questions, Mr. Kingdon stated that his company will content thorn selves for the present with buving, and will not erect any reD.iterating plant in the Dominion, ‘ineie is quite enough refrigerating plant in the country to meet the demand likelv to be made upon it for some time' to come. I think.” he said we are just going to jog along ana et organised' roadv for normal conditions to return. Of course, though, >ou know what the Armour Company is—it is not going to baulk at the fustte It° is stated that another wellknown American meat company has been participating in the Dominion s meat trade through agents during the past season or two.