BEEF TRUST AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 7 July 1915, Page 10

BEEF TRUST AGAIN

QUESTIONS IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT , - ALLEGED ACTIVITIES IN . *. AUSTRALASIA ■ ~/yyy y-. 'i:/ : .. : : :. y ■. r.. -By Telesraph—Press Association—Copyright . Londoni July 5. . r 'Mr.' iWill, Thome, Labou; M.P., asked Un. tho House of .Commons whether the ; r ilAmerican. Beef Trust, had lately acquired .aneat'/works and sources f ofsupply yin ''Australasia; • whether the ■ Government s . was awaro that though largo profits had ' out of. the English, people, •: the companies liad'not paid income-tax, ■ : :and whother'tho. Government was buy-. ■ ing beef and mutton off. American companies and their agents ■.inyAustrala.sia; 7 : and afterwards paying . ,tho\'_ American companies a commission of 2"per cent, to sell-tho meat .to the British, peopled > The' Right Hon. W.' Runoiman, "Presi- " • tienfr. of ;tho Board of Trade, in reply, -v- ■ -said ~that one American/company, oper- ■ !ated freezing works Sin iAustralia, arid '' the" other American companies, : had : "iibought" meat in tho open market. All 'the 1 Australasian' meat had been ■acquired at prices fixed by. tho Austra- :> i■■■ lasian--Governments.-'.on;-behalf- .of- the ■,! 'Imperial. Government.: The. surplus had . Jieen sqld bv firms "that had been pre- . .. the meat,' and a£a com-lmssion-more" favourable to-the Govern- ' • ment previously- prevailed) TRUST;4i'ARD AT WHAT; A' QTJEENSLANDER SATS. ... ; CRec. July -9.20 p.m.) / . 'ii Sydney,' July 6 ■ Mr. • Stiarpe, Federal. member, ior-Ox-ley (QifJenslaud), attributes, the meat : ■ • shortage'to tho operations of the American Meat Trust, which is hard at'work ■' ■-wherevorva pound of menu is available, ; v : in New: South "AValeSj . Queensland,. Vic-, torn, and New Zealand: 1 ' l ;; , the -wholo . output of -the ■ Queensland.meat. worksliasbeenbought :i- . up by..-:tho,.Tnist','represefitativesvglho' ■ y:';:.Trust; .'eoinpariies. Irilliria27so::.cattle y'.;-daily.; f