Uncontrolled Meat Prices For Three Months
AUCKLAND, July 14. Meat prices will not be contrdlled iu Meptember, October and Novemlier. The wholesale and retail price orders issued in Febrnary stated that • they would not applyj in those. mon.ths. Auckland master- butehers ■ wSll --holu' meetings, in an. effort* tdl, ensure tliatuniformly. -fair •• retail prices are cliarged. . . j The effect .of tlie^ relaxgition will be, that butchers may not have to stand--the crippling losses many sulfer.ed in' the same period last year yyheir wliolesale prices of carcase meat were ; not controlled, said the presi.dent of ... tlifc Auckland Master t Butchers'. Association7 ^rr. H. lC". Brklges." .. Becaxise * ot* the shortage of meat in that period butchers had to pay sucii high prices that tliey were foreed to .sell at a loss. It is hoped that during' the coming period they will at leasu be able to cover costs. It was largely dependent on hoiv the butchers hartdled the situation whuther they would have a' Case 'foVthe:" t-oin-. plete abandonment of control le'd. pfices for meat, said the president'of the New" - Zealand Master Butchers' Federation, Mr. J. W. Perry. The system of grading meat would not be relaxed during the period without controls.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1949, Page 6
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