MEAT SUPPLIES
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENTMENACE OF GREAT MEAT TRUST By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, October 28. Air. M'Curdy (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry), speaking at Loughborough, dealt with the question of meat supplies, .lie. described the situation as full of menace, and-as mado more menacing by thy fact that a great Meat Trust was ready to exploit the position. He foreshadowed Government control to secure stability. The Government. did not; want to perpetuate tho waivfimo controls: .but more elastic and less restrictive methods were necessary, He anlieiapled a definite and continuous policy of supervision, rather than of interference, covering a reasonable period of years ahead. He gave statistics showing that Great Britain required to import a million lons of meat in 11)20, and tho rest of Europe three million tons, 'while the total exportable sur. pluses in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa together only amounted to 1,210,(100 tons.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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151MEAT SUPPLIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 7
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