"GONE UP."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 4

"GONE UP."

. RETAIL PRICE OF MEAT. The price of meat "has gono up." For some time butchers have been complaining that the conditions bearing on their trade havo made it difficult to obtain payable returns. They state that prices ruling for stock havo been high, and another factor tending to induce a' rise' in pricp is that butchers havo for somo time, found, their patrons, .disinclined 'to' ■purchase' anything 1 ' hut "prime cuts." Tho demand-far coarser lines of meat, it appears, is a small and diminishing quantity. This, of. course, increases the working expenses of traders who retail meat.

Broadly speaking, the alteration which is to he vnado from to-day involves an increase of ono halfpenny per pound in tho finer grades of beef and mutton. The prico of rump steak and sirloin of beef is to be .increased Id. per lb., but these lines are exceptions. In most cases the increase, so far as it applies, will amount to one halfpenny per pound. Legs of mutton and loins of mutton are among tho lines of which the price will bo increased by this amount, They havo been selling at sd. per lb., and the prico demanded to-day and henceforth will bo 5Jd. Forcqunrtors of mutton and meat of similar grade will retain the prices at which they are now retailed.