WINTER BEEF SUPPLIES.
PROSPECTS GOOD. In Morrinsville District. Discussing this week the beef shortage in Poverty Bay and the prospect of the public having to revert to frozen beef during the winter, a Morrinsville butcher stated that as far as he could see there would be no shortage in this district. It was true that there had been very little steer beef offering at recent Morrinsville sales but he stated that several lots had been chang-ing hands in the paddocks. He estimated that there were approximately 4000 head of beef ydthin a day’s or two days’ drive of Morrinsville which would be released upon the markets during the winter. Many of the graziers, he thought, were holding on te their stock for the winter markets so as to secure prices that would give them some return upon the stores they purchased at inflated values. There was little doubt, continued the butcher, that there would be a rise ,in the market prices for beef during the winter, but he did not for a moment think they would soar to above £2O a head, as they did during last winter. According to the Poverty Bay Herald the situation in that district does not appear encouraging. This paper reports a Gisborne butcher as j saying:— “ The public of Gisborne will have ] to accustom themselves to eating- j
frozen beef during the coming for there will be practically no fat stock available during the winter months.” He added that from what he had seen in recent trips through A the district his own shop could handle with ease all the fat cattle which would be available during the winter. Already .the butchers are making preparations for the coming beef famine, and some of the best of the cattle which can now be purchased are being rushed into the freezing works, where they will be frozen and held for consumption later in the season. Dealers who travel throughout the whole of Poverty Bay say that fat cattle wall: be coming only from one or two specially-favoured portions of the: district this winter and that there will not be nearly enough ©f them to supply the normal beef needs of the town.- &■ _
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 133, 20 May 1926, Page 6
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366WINTER BEEF SUPPLIES. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 133, 20 May 1926, Page 6
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