MEAT TRUST METHODS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 2

MEAT TRUST METHODS.

DANGER TO DOMINION.

Operations-of the meat trust were referred to by tiie Prime Minister m j,i s speech at the opening of the freezing woiks at Yvhakatane (says the "New Zealand Herald"). He said he was no* an alarmist, but, from what had come undor his notice, he was convinced that it was necessary for the producers of the Dominion to bo on their against tho advent of the meat trust ™n^ c + begl nmi)* Of trust methods. The meat trust was out to make money and if it could not make it out of th« producer at one end, it would"make£ out of the consumer at the other He did not think that it should be aJJowed to squeeze either producer or consumer Practically the whole of the mcot^S" .put of the Argentine, and alsothe rat way and shipping interests, wore unoW the-mfluence of the trust,'and th *el Jects of tho system were such that all though Argentine .vas only about half the distance of Australia or New Zea land from the British markets tL stock was far below the price received n this Dominion. They must provide ot m hat had taken place in the Ir^entine and it would be" their duty, either by legislation or regulation, to reqo r« that it should be a condition o? the licenses issued to freezing comnaniS that no. trust methods should S per! mrttod in the conduct of their wo?S Ihe trust method had to be stopned SopVod" ' and beJieVCd * ™^J