Meat Trade Combination

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10421, 14 May 1909, Page 4

Meat Trade Combination

IANI-INa^BREJSrraNG' REPORT. j ".NOT AT'PORE-SENT A, MENIACB. ■ (Per United Press Association.} I LONtDQISF, May lji. : Lordl Robert Cecil's committee to consider thei combinations' in the meat trade cabled on July 24ibli reports that the coni''binatkm of Nanimond, Armour, -Swift, and Morris ■companies was not a serious danger at present, but it appears the endeavouring tin ajcquiirei the cjomtrolling interests in the Argentine; also* enquiries on the' part of the United States* firms 1 in ■Nfew Zealand and Aiubtralia. Estanctieros, in Argentina, are opposing the United! iS'tatesi invasion:, fearing the price of *,heir cattle will be affected in ,tihe absence of competitive buying, but the converging: of the Argentina railways oh Biuenos Ayres is not an unfavourable comibination, though it is unlikelyio arise in the 1 near future. If it sniefcieeds it may exercise a determining influence on the beef prices of Smithfield, and largely affect the prices in Greait ©ritaim. EVidence that United States firms control the Canadian live cattle trade is too vague to allow of a dieflnlte opinion.