FARMERS AND MEAT TRUST.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 October 1917, Page 5

FARMERS AND MEAT TRUST.

PROMPT ACTION URGED. At a meeting of the general committee of the Farmers’ Union, held at Auckland on Tuesday morning, a telegram from the Proverty Bay Sub-Pri-vincial District was read appoving of the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Meat and Shipping respecting the operations of the Meat Trust. The telegram requested the support of the Auckland Executive in urging the Government in view of the gravity of tfie position,'to enact the necessary legislation before Parliament adjourns to safeguard the interests of the producers of the Dominion and the English consumer who > are suffering grave injustice through the insidious methods of the Trust. The committee decided to take action immediately and communicate with a view that prompt measures be. taken. In conversation with an Auckland Star reporter. Mr. A. A. Ross, provincial president of the Farmers’ Union, stated that the only real solution of the wh olc matter is for the Government to take charge of the export of all meat after the war, and also have an arrangement with the Imperial Government for some control of the sale of it in Great Britain. The report of the Parliamentary Committee, Mr. Ross, considered, was most satisfactory, and if given effect to would be the means of effectually , combating the efforts of any combination of capital to secure control of the meat industry in New Zealand