MEAT PRICES.
HUNGRY.
Sir, — Surely it is time our Government took some steps to protect the starving public and others against the outrageous prices we are paying for meat on the present market. Fat bulloclcs are being sold to-day from £3 to £5 each, weighing six to eight hundredweight and more, yet we are paying sixpence to one shilling a pound for beef. Sheep are selling from 4/- to 10/- each; we pay fourpence to eiglitpence a pound. There has been a reduetion of 200 per cent. in fat stock with approximately 10 per cent. from the butchers to the public. Why should the butcher not reduce it accordingly. The Government could be quite a lot of good if, they investigated the state of the meat market and saw that the public got a fair deal. They tackled the rentf pfoposition, why not tackle foodstuffs? — I am, etc.,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 6
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148MEAT PRICES. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 6
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