MEAT EXPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1921, Page 5

MEAT EXPORT.

ARMOUR’S AND LICENSE, PROTEST TO BRITAIN. MR. MASSEY STANDS FIRM. By Telegraph.—Pres* Assn.—Copyright. Loudon, July 19. The United States State Department has definitely instructed Colonel Harvey (United States Ambassador to Britain) to protest to the British Foreign Office against the New Zealand Government’s treatment of the American meat companies. Received July 20, 8.55 p.m. London, July 19. Mr. Massey, interviewed regarding Colonel Harvey’s protest, said: “I believe some protest has reached the Imperial Government from the American Government in regard to what happened between New Zealand and the American meat trust. The New Zealand Govern- 1 ment is quite able to manage its own affairs without doing injustice to the traders of American or any other nationality. So far our dealings with the American meat trust have been far from satisfactory. We are quite willing to have the whole question ventilated either in New Zealand or elsewhere, but we are certainly not going to submit to coercion." Mr. R. D. Armour, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, said: “We wish the truth to dawn on New Zealand: The Big Five is not a trust. We are anxious to enlarge the New Zealand markets.’’ Mr. Armour went on to ask: “Where are the headquarters of the British Empire? When we approach the British Foreign Office or the Colonial Office we are told Nev. 7 Zealand is a selfgoverning Dominion, and when we approach New Zealand we find a complete absence of diplomatic machinery between u?/‘—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Astin.