WAS THERE EXPLOITATION?
AN ARMY MEAT CONTRACT. « ■ ■ ■; London, April 22; In the House of Commons, Mr. Will Thome (Labour) asked a question with regard to a suggestion that Borthwick .and Sons had demanded an increased price for meat owing to the war, though the meat was in the firm's possession in Queensland before the declaration of war.
Mr. Baker (Financial Secretary to the War Office) replied that Borthwick and Sons had- supplied the full > requirements', as originally estimated, at contract price, but had been allowed a slight increase for. meat in* exccss of the. estimate. Mr. Gordon Campbell, of Weddel and Co., had been giving .valuable assistance to the. department in the purchase of meat ( without' commission or remuneration. Mr. Baker denied that the War Office had been approached by tho Incorporated Society of Meat Importers, which Mr. Tliorne had described as a ring of-Australasian importers which was cornering colonial meat.' The prices, the War, Office had paid had never been higher, but often lower, than those emoted in ithe -lists of the Incorporated Society.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 7
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175WAS THERE EXPLOITATION? Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 7
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