MEAT WORKS PURCHASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 4

MEAT WORKS PURCHASE.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUYERS.

(By Wire.— Own Correspondent.)

•»* „ Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Brown (Napier) asked in the tfouse to-day for information regarding Messrs Vesty Bros., who had acquired Messrs Nelson Bros.' freezing works m Hawlce's Bay. He understood, he said, that the Vesty Bros, were Enei*?*™ J*® taken the headquarters of their firm to New York durin" America h&d tecome naturalised in

,5, r - aß f e J said he had heard a great twl ? S t f i rm ' but he 00uld not give definite information. ' The firm had transferred its headquarters. to America in the early stages of the war with the object, it , was stated, of esTlf» rag fl Bntaj ?'» heftv y war taxation, v Lu mgU not have benefited y n the move ' eince the American taxation because even heavier than the British.

®" w " he did not think much of Englishmen who tried to evade paymg their share of the nation's taxation.

Mr. Maseey said he feared a >»ood many people tried to escape taxation, we had not heard of any member of the firm being naturalised in America.