LONDON’S MEAT.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 May 1919, Page 6

LONDON’S MEAT.

DOMINIONS AND U.S. PRICES.

LONDON, May 15.

In the House of Commons, Sir Newton Moore suggested that the Food Ministry was selling the Dominions’ .meat, costing lOd, at I3d per pound wholesale, in order to even up the average to the price paid for American He asked if the Dominion Governments had protested. Mr Roberts replied that he had received enquiries from the Dominion Governments. Meat had to be sold at a fiat rate, and the cost of all meat purchased by the Ministry averaged. Most of the imported meat came from America, where the average price was considerably higher than in the Dominions.