THE MEAT GLUT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3489, 18 May 1920, Page 7

THE MEAT GLUT.

S'l‘:\'l‘E.\’l.l£NT BY FOOD CONTROLLER.

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Thc Food f.\Ji:=islvr (Hun. ..\J,CClll‘Ll_'»'_) in zt sr2lt»un:(*nt said that as I'eg:ll'ds the glut of nle:lt' ixllpol*fod from .»\rstl“.x--la.~:i:l,“'t‘llis \\".ls due to a rapid diminntion of the rcquirenmnts oftiho Allied forces on the tel'n3;inn.tioll of the \ml'. British people ’rolnpol'ul'iVl_V xvoro owing‘ half a million tons loss fresh moat annually than norlnuily. They were only eating fhz‘o(~ ponnU.~: now, compzlsefl with four before the Will‘. The only apparentoxpl:nmt'ion was that ='.v:lrtime 11-.lbil'.< were not yet forgotten. -The G()vel'JllnCnt had decided to I'o-

dune the who'lesalc price of mutton from the all-round figure of 9d to prices

ranging from 6._‘.d to 9d retail. The Cow trol of prices would be removed. Ho e.{pl‘essod the opinion fhaf ldmstie reduction xvotxld tend to steady, and even lower the prices of other commodi’ric_=s. He fleclmed thaf oIITy one-half per cen’rum of all the meat: handled had been condemned.