MEAT TRADE
COMPANIES’ COMMERCIAL WEAR
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 18.
The Daily Express states that commercial warfare is waging between British and American companies engaged in the South American meat trade. A breakdown of the former meat shipping arrangement, which maintained regular and unfluctuating supplies for Britain, led to a glut at Smithfield market, but the consumer did not reap the full benefit of the collapse of the wholesale price. The Food Council is expected shortly to report. The indication is that the retail, prices should be lowered 2d per lb. Millionaires are engaged on both sides in the war. It- is estimated that the companies have 'already lost- £lO,000,000, their share of the falling values on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 March 1926, Page 5
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123MEAT TRADE Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 March 1926, Page 5
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