"PROFITEERING" IN MEAT.
LOS ANGELES. May 24. Profiteering in New Zealand meat was charged against Armour and Co., and its Xew Zealand manager in Boston on May 5. It was alleged that the firm bought lamb in New Zealand for 10 cents a lb, plus freight charges of about 4 cents, a lb,, and sold it at 25 cents per lb. The sales were part of a consignment of 100,000 carcases. The manager, who was released on bail, said thtv the company always sold its products at market p-ices, whether for gain or loss. Chicago, the meat cenf'.e of the world, is now eating meat impored from Australia ;:iiil Xew Zealand. The price of lam!) lias been forced down two cents per lb in the Chicago market, packers say, by large importations of frozen lamb from the Antipodes.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 19 June 1920, Page 3
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