MEAT TRADE REPORT
FURTHER DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) : , This Day. The debate on the Meat Export Trade Committee report was renewed' by Mr Payne, who contended that' the only way'fe counteract the operations of the American Trust was for the State to get into direct touch with the consumers./ There was ...far; too much '"rake off"; between the producers here and the consumers..in England. A State bank would' solve the. whole position. ■:.-.. Mr W. IL Field held the opinion that there.should be more co-operation betweeja the Home. Government" and the Overseas Governments in the matter of the .handling of meat. Another matter to b'ev faced immediately was shipping space..' Something had to be done immediately,, even if it meant a State Servicer .
Mr Anstey said that the greatest offender in the country was 1 the Bank of New-Zealand, which was financing the Meat Trust. He did not altogether blame the bank, but there the thing The report was adopted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 26 October 1917, Page 5
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