LONDON'S MEAT GLUT
BRITISH PEOPLE EATING LESS REDUCTION IN PRICE OF .MUTTON By Telegraph-Prefß Association-Copyright (Reo. Hay IG, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 13. The Food ' Minister (Mr. C. A. M'Curdy), in a statement, said that as regards the glut of meat imported from Australasia this was duo to the rapid diminution of the requirements of the A,lied m/ olm on tI,IJ termination of the war. The Brlish people temporarily were eating half a million tons less fresh mea; annually than normally. They were only eating 31b. for every 41b. beiors the war. The only apparent explanation was that war-time- habits had not yet been forgotten. The Government had, decided to reduce the wholesale price of mutton from the all-' , round figure of 9d. per lb. to prices ranging from CJd. to 9d. per lb. The retail contrpl of prices will be removed. He expressed the opinion that the drastic reduction would teud to steady and even lower the prices of other commodities. He declared that only one-half n? n ! P , CGni of all tlle meat handled had been condeinned.-Impn-ial I kcws Service.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 5
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182LONDON'S MEAT GLUT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 5
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