THE MEAT TRUST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18116, 5 June 1919, Page 5

THE MEAT TRUST.

DOMINION TO HELP TO FIGHT IT. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, June 4. In referring, in a speech at the South Island Dairy Association dinner, to controlling or arranging prices, the Hon W. D. S. MacDonald said he had received information from England which led him to believe that' New Zealand was going to be asked to help Britain to fight tho Meat Trust. They would have to come to a standing agreement to sell tho produce of the Dominion at a certain price in London, and if the Trust brought prices down they would have 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 leading producers- together to discuss matters bearing on the welfare ■of the people of this country.