SUPPLIES AND PRICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3193, 18 September 1917, Page 6

SUPPLIES AND PRICES

OUR MEAT EXPORTS.

Prom v Tlie Times," June 25:— Inquiry by Lord Rhoudda. Problem of Supplies and Prices. - Meat and Bread. "The Times" sums up the position, as follows-.—"The wholesale price or ' Australian lamb is 101 d. a. pound; tho Tetaii price is more like Is/ lOqWhat the public are asking, is: Who gets the difference of a shilling Sir,—The following cutting, entitled "Some Suggestions," on the above subject is taken from "The Weekly Press, September s:—

The following suggestions come from the Islington Cuttle Market:— "When a ship, laden with meat and other produce enters any port iu the United Kingdom, consigned to any one of the- meat trusts, this meat shall be placed on the public market at SmitMeld and other large centres and sold direct to the retail butcher and those who hold stalls for the sale of meat iu the Central Meat.Markets. There shall be no selling of this meat, ex ship or ex stores, to pass tutougli five or six different hands before it. ■ reaches the' retail butcher. The exorbitant profits realised by the* socalled meat kings, who seldom see the meat they gamble in, mil m™^ , "™* be brought to an end, and all meat • slfcll be cleared and sold publicly within fourteen days of a ships enteral,!™ whole matter comw to tW declares ' ships on the flew Zealand and AaEtralian moat trade, and get more meat here." ; £&&*&s basis as sales of meat V public auction of Producers and consumer would Iμ safeguarded. Tie das, cE middlemen who are responsible fa all the abuses and speculation m the trade favour action LW taken, if not now the:■ in, rte future. The omentum rf the hiMert* rtll-ixwrerful influence ' the SniitUneui Market custom" would K »"t lutle Mt when weighed against an indignant public opinion.—l am, etc., C. 1 de TESCHEMAKER-STOTB.