THE PRICE OF MEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 September 1917, Page 4

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

To the Editor. Sir—A letter signed J. T. Davey in to-night’s issue of your valuable' paper is to me most interesting reading. Sir, would you be kind enough to ask Mr Davey if he'would give mea personal interview. I have been following the trade of a butcher since child-hood, and know only too well that I have stiTTa lot to learn. The above-mentioned Mr Davey should be able to enlighten me on many intricacies of the trade, if he can practice as he preaches. Four i pounds for hides, £2 for an ox tripe and fat, lOd per lb overall for a beef carcase is 7 news indeed. I must have been asleep to have been content up to the present to retail meat —my opposition trader, Mr Parker, too—at prices that are the same as the State shops, which cut frozen meat and do not deliver or trade otherwise than for spot cash. There is one thing I can do, and as it is such a good thing on, Mr Davey should jump at it, and that is, I can find him a good butcher’s business in any town he likes to name at the price of its fixtures and am ; etc., -• • SAM. S. TIME'S.