MEAT PRICES
:(■; PROTEST AGAINSTi THE RISE, i "■., The rise in the price of meat was referred : to at yesterday's meeting of tho Deritral Chamber, of Commerce, and the chairman said that while. 6ome people attributed' the increase ' to ■!; the war, . others said that; the American Meat Trust was the cause. -Mr. C. M. Luke understood'-that the retail butchers •wore wrothabout the risej and infended making representations to the Govern-' ment. It did not seem that the war should operate on the price of meat yet, and he thought it would bo a most diabolical thing if any body of-men took advantage of warfare to inflate prices. . Mr. F. Townsend said that the- Government should have set up the committee ,to regulate 'prices a fortnight' ago;, the delay had given 6ome people a chance to increase prices. Mr. J. Brodie moved that the Government should be requested to investigate the matter to see. if the rise was Warranted. This was carried.' '. '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 7
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160MEAT PRICES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 7
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