COMBINE OCTOPUS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 April 1919, Page 2

COMBINE OCTOPUS.

EXTENDING ITS TENTACLES TO

THE DOMINION

A WARNING,

Speaking on this subject, Mr Octavius Beale, a passenger to Sydney by the Niagara, stated that when he was in England he was connected with the British Empire Producers' Organisation, represeating manufacturers and producers, formed to defend the industries of the Empire as a whole against foreign penetration. He said it was well known that a combine of Chicago meat packers had obtained overmastering control over the products and herds of Australia. It had already extended its tentacles into New Zealand. There were other trusts, equally active, if more seldom seen on the surface. It behoves the manufacturers and producers of the Dominion to get together to protect themselves against external control, that would hold them in a net from which it would become in time impossible to escape.