TRUST METHODS IN THE MEAT TRADE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 23, 22 October 1920, Page 8

TRUST METHODS IN THE MEAT TRADE

THE LAND BILL DISCUSSED

FREEHOLD OF NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS

The i&eat Ttust was under discussion in tho House <tf Representatives'yesterday afternoon. The Stock Committee recommended, in reporting upon a potitio.i, that the Government should continue to refuse to issue a meat export licence to Armour and Company of Australasia, which was a subsidiary company of Armour and Company of the United States Soma members of the House spoke in favour of the issue of a license to the company. The Ministor of Agriculture stated that the Government was opposed to the Meat Trust in any form. He referred In some detail to the-operations of the trust in tho United States.

A Shops and Offices Amendment Bill was introduced. Its chief provision reduces the shop assistants' working week from 52 hours to 43 hours.

The report of the lands Committee on the Eotorua Town Lands Bill, proposing the granting of the freehold, was received by the House without furtheidebate. This report had been twice "talked out" by the supporters of tho leasehold tenure The Bill iB now on the Order ■ Paper of the House again. The Minister ot Lands moved the second reading of the Land Bill in tho House in the evening. He explained the Bill in some detail, and mentioned that he intended to move in Committee that all tenants of national endowment land should be permitted to acquire the freehold of their holdings. The Bill_ was discussed by the House until after midnight, many members having something to say about production -and tenures. The opponents of the frqjholil obviously were a minority, . .