RESULT OF MEAT INQUIRY CASE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2509, 9 July 1915, Page 6

RESULT OF MEAT INQUIRY CASE

FIRM'S/ BREACH OF AGREEMENT. , l , •By Telegraph-Proas Association—Copyright ' : Melbourne, July 8. ■Mr.. Justice Hood's,..finding- in the meat inquiry: case is 'that tlio .firm of Borthwick and' Sons wore guilty- of a breach of agreement; thilt tho firm had raised unwarrantable difficulties, when none of tho other shippers did so; that W. , C; Angliss loaded-transport A 36 in order to avoid a probable prohibition occasioning loss to himself; and that Aaighss's loading of transport A 37 was a,- wilful disobedience of tlio Government's decision.

[The Victorian State Cabinet decided on' June 18 last that a Royal Commission,; consisting of a Supreme Court Judge, Should be appointed to investigate tho whole question of the oxportation -of frozen meat since tho agreement was eoitered into early in February with exporters to make available supplies for tho Imperial authorities, and the Commission to deal particularly: with'the manner in which the exporters carried out their undertaking. Consideration was also to be given to the allegations made against the firm of W. Angliss and Co. Proprietary that, it ; acted m defiance; of an order by the Government in shipping cargoes of meat to England early in June.]