OUR MEAT AND THE TRUST

Taihape Daily Times, 30 June 1919, Page 5

OUR MEAT AND THE TRUST

i It is true that the .~\.mm-ican Meat ITrust, as a preliminary ‘to gl-'ippillg ‘supplies at this end With its tentacles ihas obtained control of the British ‘supplying at the other end of th= fiworldi Such a serious cliarge is suggestod in an editorial article in a relcont issue of the London Star, which ilsaysi “As the North American) meat [stocks bought :by the British Govlcrnment are nearly exliausted, the meat supplies will come almost onltiriely from South America, where me {Chicago Trust controls them. There [is plenty of primeiineat in Australia |a.nd New Zealand already purchased; ;by the Government but under the pre—l ;text. of economising shipping the iGovernment is refusing to allow this‘ to be brought to the British civilian market. The effect of its arrival Would, of course, be to bring down the. prices which the Chicago Meat TrITST is able to extort from theßritiSh 0011- I Lsumer. The British Go_vernlm‘nt is ‘taking care that this shallnot occur by reserving for the British army the only Australasian exports that it‘ permits .' In order to get rid Of 501110 of the remainder, without allowingit to reduce the’ price in Great Britain,‘ it has actually been sold in the U.S.A.f’ . _ \ .