AMERICAN MEAT TRUST.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 June 1919, Page 5

AMERICAN MEAT TRUST.

IDOES IT OWN NELsoN"s WO_R_I{S? 3 -The.feon(:lusion of‘ the ‘war h'a.s'7re’:4v_iv"ed the outcry" in‘ the Dominion’ _ag'iiilis't wliatv is‘ generally known as ‘the, Aniei-ic2in'Mea.tVTr'ust, and at Heine the"‘p:E‘ood ,Colltl'oli‘el*’s Departnient has a‘_cl<iio'\\‘ledgecl this week that uneasiness is being caused to the Imperial Government by the 'Trust’s ‘growing power of control over’ tlle meat prices of the wo‘l'ld_ The apprehensions of those who are disquieted by the knowledge that this Trust is operating ill New Zealand (says t.he'Ota»go Daily Times editorially) will have been in~ creased by the recent report that Messrs Nelson B'ro‘s., limitecl, have disposed «of their interests in this country to -an Anierican company. Messrs Nelson Bros. were the owners of three freezing works in the Dominion——— namely, the Tomoana YVo1'l~:s (Hawke’s Bay), with :1 killing capacity of 3000 sheep and’ 80 head of cattle per clay, and" a storage capacity of 155,000 earcases of niutton; the Taruheru'VVorks .(§G_isborn'e), with" a killing tca.pae.ity of 3000 sheep aml 80 head of cattle per day, and" a storage capacity of 95,000 eareases '_of mutton; they Hornby xvoi-ké (ii’earAClll'istehnlrch), “with a killing’ eapaitcy of 1500 sheep per day and :1 storage Weapacity of_ '64_,Ootol‘ carcases not‘ mutton. Efflit-!.:may be ! assumed that t.li‘e"Ameriean company which has acquire""d these extensive interests in the Dominion is controlled! by the Trust, it would Seem that the’ Trust is not grea-tl_\_' .perturbed by the‘ measures which have been legislatively! taken in New Zealand to defeat its! purpose. .