COST OF BACON.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 8

COST OF BACON.

A BETTER PRICE WANTED. (By Wire.—Own Correspondent, y Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Massey was asKed in the House to-day to direct the attention of the Board of Trade to the. price of bacon, wholesale. Mr. Nash said that the prices at which bacon manufacturers had to buy pigs did not leave them a margin of profit when they had to sell bacon at the gazetted price of 1/2$ per lb. It was absolutely necessary that something should be done immediately. The retail price was still high enough to allow of a higher price being asked by the manufacturers, without an increase of price to the consumer. He said that the present prices operated heavily against the smaller bacon factories.

Mr. Massey said that a strong difference of opinion existed among the proprietors of bacon factories in different parts of New Zealand. The owners of one factory, had told him that they.had lost £3OOO last year and the owners of a big factory said that they were making a satisfactory profit. His difficulty in approaching such a question was that, he did not wish to increase the cost of living and at the sam e time lie wanted to see people making a reasonable pro,fit. He promised to draw the attention of the Board of Trade to the question.