THE PRICE OF MEAT
(To the Editor “N.Z. Times.”)
Sir, —The reports of drought all over the country is very disastrous to the stock breeder, and sympathy must go out to them in their distress. But “Oh why” are _we. so oppressed by tho extortionate' price of meat, when stock is dying in thousands to encumber the ground, and the poorer classes of the community throughout New Zealand aro hungering for fresh meat, and cannot buy, not being able to afford the extortionate prices charged, lOd per pound for mutton, retail price I am paying, not 20 miles from Wellington. What are the Government thinking -of to_ allow us workers to ho exploited in this atrocious manner? It makes one’s blood boil to think of the hundreds of working families in. the Dominion who are starving for fresh moat, because their wages, however high, cannot come at the price. “For God’s sake, Efficiency Board, wake up” and como to our relief, is the pravef of WORKER.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10282, 17 May 1919, Page 10
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166THE PRICE OF MEAT New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10282, 17 May 1919, Page 10
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