MEAT TRUST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 28 May 1919, Page 5

MEAT TRUST.

DISCUSSION BY FARMERS,

SEVERAL MOTIONS PASSED

(BY ™WAPE-PM ASSOCIATION) WELLINGTON, May 27 meat irust operating in this n n minion He stressed the dange o f £ lowing the trust to secure a firm foot-" mg m New Zealand. root" Mr Hugh, Morrison, in seconding the motion, said that' they ™ re no | called upon to fight an autocratio commercial combine. If the tn£t 1« gmng high prices for stock now It and later it would pay what it liked ail 4 n^' What farmers wanted ' +vw C. Jackson said that the Zealand. 38 dy °PeratinS * New «»S tli er speakers agreed that the only mudy wa? c°-operation. n ,,Sl ei r!? ent (Mr, G- L- Marshall) " tl}? ed Q , th + c ; rec T ent legislation placed" on the Statute Book, with the object of controlling, the trust, by giving the Minister discretion in the" gFantiSg of export licenses to freezing companies. Were, those means sufficient? He ■tWg P n tht^ I 1 ,Was "satisfactory that tall and absolute power was given to one Minister, and control at the other end was essential. At Mr W. J. Birch's suggestion the motion was amended to read: That the Government, be requested to take all possible steps to prevent the Meat lrust operating in this Dominion in the distribution of the Dominion's products in Great Britain. The motion as amended was agreed to. The conference also adopted the following motion by Mr C- C. Read (Carterton): That the. Government be requested to publish the names of representatives of the Meat Trust, also the names- under which the Meat Trust was operating in New Zealand. A motion from Featherston was also agreed to. It read: That with a view to preventing agents of the Meat Trust operating in dairy produce in this Dominion, this conference urges the National Dairy Association to advise all dairying companies to consign their produce to the Home markets and arrange for their own means of distribution there.

It wan. stated that the National Dairy Association • Lad already taken up the matter.