MEAT TRUST MENACE
• FARMERS' UNION PROPOSALS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night The Farmers' Union Conference discussed the meat trust menace, and carried a remit requesting the Government to see that legislation U provided in order to keep the meat and shipping trusts from operating in N*ew Zealand and in distribution in Great Britain. It was decided to ask the Government to inquire into the operations uf the trust, and determine whether the . high prices offered in some districts for pigs were being made by the firms interested in the trust with the object of the trust übtniiiing a controlling influence over tho pork market in New Zealawl, and also to publish the.nanus of the . representatives of the meat trust, al.-n tl'.e names under which the trust is operating in the Dominion. The following was also carried: That in view of the meat trust menace it shall be illegal for any freezing wor'.cj to be sold except with the sanction, of the Government, sanction for sale to he given only after it is proved that tho purchaser is in no way acting for or connected with the meat trust, the onus of proof to rest upon the purchaser.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 5
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198MEAT TRUST MENACE Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 5
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