Prices Counteract Lifting Of Meat Rationing

Chronicle (Levin), 9 October 1948, Page 4

Prices Counteract Lifting Of Meat Rationing

The lifting of the meat ratipning has made little apparent difr ference to local butchers, who reiterate thaf the price of meat todav is prohibitive. "The meat is rationing itself," said one butcher, who added that the smaller families who were hardest hit under . the coupon sy^tern were the only pnes buying, more. iFrozen meat, he said," was'" unpopular and he wpuld not stock it although some others wpre. Levin is in a .more fortqnate position than . other centres in regard to deliveries to householders, it being learnt t'hat local butchers deliyered meat despite the' high wages which they had to pay delivery boys today. It was very hard to find boys willing to apprentice themselves to ^the trade, said one butcher, and eyen more so to find delivery boys. Some butchers 'deliyered on alternative days in the town a^eas besides their country rounde.