FOOD TRUSTS.
A SCANDALOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS. PRICE OF FOOD NOT DUE TO ITS SCARCITY. Received February 8, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, February 7. The "Daily Chronicle's" New York correspondent reports that the official returns show that there is six hundred million sterling in food in the various Trusts' cold stores, including fourteen million carcases of cattle, twenty-five million sheep, fifty million pigs, five million pounds' worth of fish for the Lenten season. The cost of food, therefore, is not due to its scarcity. The "Chronicle" adds that despite the increase in railway receipts'and ither signs of prosperity that American financial circles are thoroughly unsettled by the Government's attitude towards the Trusts. The value of the stuck of 32 rail*.ys and 29 industrial combinations has depreciated by 207 millions sterling in six months, owing to the fear that the Trusts will be prosecuted.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19100208.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9713, 8 February 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
142FOOD TRUSTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9713, 8 February 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in