MEAT FOR THE ARMY.
NO CONTRACT FRAUDS. London, April 22. In the House of Commons, Mr. "Will Thome, in a question, suggested that Messrs. Borthwick and Sons had demanded increased prices for meat owing to the war, though the meat was in the firm's possession in Queensland before the declaration. Mr. H. F. Baker, Financial Secretary to the War Office, replied that Borthwick and Co. supplied the full requirements as originally estimated at the contract price. They were allowed a slight increase on the meat in excess of the estimates, Mr, Gordon Campbell, of Weddel's, had been giving valuable assistance to the Department in the purchase of meat, without commission or remuneration.
Mr. Baker denied that the War Office had been approached by an incorporated society of meat importers, which Mr. Thome described as a ring of Australasian importers cornering colonial moat. The price 3 the War Office paid were never higher, and often lower than those quoted in the lists of the Incorporated Society.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 8
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