MENACE OF THE MEAT TRUST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3162, 14 August 1917, Page 8

MENACE OF THE MEAT TRUST

■ . ..DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE URGED. ■"" $y Telegraph—Press Association. ' ... ~.-■ '■;■■. . Dunedin, August 13. \■'■.,-, At-the annual meeting of Chamber \. ''■■■ of Commerce, tho retiring president, Mr. ; -George Fenwick; referred to the menace : f .of • the American Meat Trust, and suz- ' gested,that.a federation or defensive alliance- of New Zealand freezing comi. panies was required. Hβ referred to a i weakness in\regard to the marketing of . New Zealand meat, pointing out that • while; the companies mastered this end ■'•. of the business they hardly, touched the ':.'. ;Xondon end, whereas the.-Americans kept '•'■ full -control".'of'",both ends," thus getting !:■.' the-distributing and tho.-retail profit, • which New Zealand passed over to ' others. The association of freezing com-. ; .panies would require to Ijo kept 'abso- ■ lutely free of suspicion of , foreign, asso-, ; ciation. He hoped tho report of tho' commission appointed to inquire into tho matter would lend to some effective ; steps to counteract'tho evil threatening 1 .the meat trade and producers.