PRICE OF MEAT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1545, 29 August 1905, Page 3

PRICE OF MEAT.

ACTION BY AUCKLAND LABOR COUNCIL, mmm*

At the ordinary meeting of tbeAuokland Trades and Labor Council the secretary {Mr Arthur Rosser) drew attention to the fact that the looat consumers paid more for New Zealand moat than the people in London paid. To ascertain this, all they had to do was to look at the cablegrams which appeared in the daily papers. According to these, the consumer iu London never paid more than 6d per lb for his meat, and it was a well known faot that it was only the best that was seDt away. To get a docent joint of beef now a man had to pay 7d per lb for it, whereas odl.v a few years ago he could get it for 4d per lb. The Anokland Farmers’ Co-opsrativo Society, however, was now about to come to the consumers’ assistance by regulatiug the prices of local meat by those ruling upon the London market. He thought that in thefirown interests they should support the eooiftty, and he wonld therefore move, J * Tfiat. this Trades and Labor Council urges npon the Farmers’ Cooperative Society to establish depots In the city, I where the consumer can bo brought into eontaot with the producer.” ' He pointed oat that the best New Zealand mutton oonld be gut in London cheaper than hßre. There was, he said, a tremendous combine I in Auckland, whioh bad to be combated. I The motion was seoonded and carried. Mr Rosser remarked that it was high time that something was dons to bring the •consumer into oloser contact with the pro-1 •dnoer.