THE MEAT TRUST.

Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 20

THE MEAT TRUST.

SYDNEY, July 9. At the annual meeting of the New South Wales Pastoralists’ Association the president stated that the flocks of New South Wales had decreased by six millions in the past five years. In the Argentine the floCks were also decreasing, while at the same time the world’s meat consumption was expanding. All indications pointed to world-wide scarcity and high prices in the near future. Referring to the late meat strike in Sydney, the president said it marked an important era in the history of industrial struggle, and proved the absolute necessity for employers in all callings to form themselves into one powerful organisation to resist the unfair, increasing, and insistent demands of employees. Unless they did so they could not hope to remain masters of their own business or to carry on business with any prospect of success. July 11. A leading city butcher has declared that Sydney consumers are paying at least 25 per cent, more than they should for meat, owing to the operations of the canning companies, including the American Meat Company, in Brisbane He states that those companies are not only unfairly competing against local carcase butchers, but are jeopardising the-city’s meat supply by forcing prices to an artificial limit. BRISBANE, July 9. A meat company, said to be representative of a large American firm, has secured a site for meat works on the Brisbane River. .