BRITISH FOOD SUPPLIES
FURTHER GOVERNMENT PURCHASES PROBABLE. TO STABILIZE PRICES. '* RAPID MULTIPLICATION OF TRUSTS. AMERICAN MEAT TRUST'S. CONTROL (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) (Received June 18, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 17. Mr MeCurdy, for the Ministry of Food, announces that owing to the expectation of a further rise in food prices next winter the Government Is considering the resumption of national or inter-Allied purchases of essential! foodstuffs to stabilize prices and! abolish speculative buyers. The rapid multiplication of trusts to maintain high prices is proceeding at an alarming rate. The American Meat Trust is growing in power, and its control of the world's meat prices is causing the Government, uneasiness.
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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14088, 18 June 1919, Page 5
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