AMERICAN PROTEST

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1921, Page 4

AMERICAN PROTEST

MR MASSEY’S STATEMENT.

WILL NOT SUBMIT TO COERCION. LONDON, July 19. Air Massey, interviewed regarding Colonel Harvey’s protest, said: “I believe that softie protest has reached the Imperial Government from the American Government with regard to what lias happened between New Zealand and the American Aleat Trust. The New Zealand Government is quite able to manage its own affairs without doing injustice to the traders of America or any other nationality. So far our dealings with the American Meat Trust have been far from satisfactory. We are quite willing to have the whole question ventilated, either in New Zealand or elsewhere, hut we are certainly not going to submit to coercion.” Mr P. D. Armour, interviewed by the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, said. “We wish the truth to dawn on New Zealand. The Big Five is not a trust. AVe are anxious to enlarge the New Zealand markets.” Mr Armour went on to ask, “Where are the headquarters of the British Empire f When we approach the British Foreign Office or the Colonial Office we are told that New Zealand is a selfgoverning Dominion. When we approach New Zealand we find a oomplcte absence of diplomatic machinery between us.”