MEAT AT AUCTION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 6

MEAT AT AUCTION

GOOD .MUTTON AT CHEAP RATES.

The mutton auction sales at Townsend and Paul’s markets were continued yesterday morning, when there was a quick sale at low prices. Forequarters of good conditioned wether mutton brought from 2s. 3d. to 3s. each; hind-quarters, from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 9d.; full sides sold at from 7s. to 9s. These sales are to be held daily. There is no “dwelling" on tho part of the auctioneer, who is not there -to waste his own or anyone else s time. Several people got “left” yesterday, through not being awake to then opportunities. ' The prices were so different from those the public have been accustomed .to paying up till qni’e recently that many imagined there must b? some mistake somewhere. In explanation, i- w-as statrsl that the stock are fair to good-condi-tioned sheen from the Masterton district which are slaughtered at the Municipal Abattoirs the day before he sale. It is mutton that any city ’butcher would bur. of a quality as good ns. if not belter than, that which is slaughtered for Home consumption.

AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES REDUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, March 18.

Tlie master butchers have decided further to reduce the retail prices of beef and mutton from a penny to a haltpenny per pound.