THE BEEF TRUST.
: d OPERATIONS IN AUSTRALIA. By Tclccraoh-Prcss ■Usodallon-Conyrinht Sydney, February 28. Stock-selling agents wero not communicative when questioned regarding the prospects of tho American Meat Combine operating in Australia. They admitted that representatives of tho Combine attended sales, also that they had been negotiating for tho purchase of at least one meat company. ■ The representatives are spoken of as Swifts, but, it is understood, really represent the combined meat packers of America, with a capital of forty million pounds. Present operations appear to bo confined to purchasing preserved mutton ami beef. Mr. Tudor, Minister for Trade and Customs, has stated that he has learned on good authority that the Besf Trust is trying to dispose of some of its shares in Australia with the object of getting important Australians into tho Trust, so as to secure a firm footing in Australia.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19110301.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
143THE BEEF TRUST. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in