THE PRICE OF MEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1921, Page 4

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

NO REDUCTION PROMISED. BUTCHERS GIVE REASONS. Interviewed yesterday, New Plymouth butchers had no comments to make regarding a probable reduction in the retail price of meat locally. One master butcher stated that the feeling among the proprietors of the shops was in favor of making a reduction, and this would have been carried out had the market for hides and tallow' improvej, but at present the price received for these lines was very low. Asked as to the basis of working in other towns where prices have been lowered, one butcher stated that the conditions in these places were different. Wellington is the most recent case in which a fall injetail prices has occurred, and a recent report on the subject states: The prices of fat stock in the country have been falling lately as a result of thp congestion in the meat stores at Home. “Stores” are down to the level or 14 years ago, and fat stock both beef and mutton, have fallen proportionately., The slump is more or less reflected in the retail prices of meat, although the public are not so far getting the full benefit of the reduction in the wholesale market. The fall in “butchers’ prices” ranges from Id to 2d per lb, but that fall may bp •increased shortly. The prices ruling in some of the shops on Tuesday were as follow: Sirloin. 7£d per lb; ribs, 6£d: rump steak, llkl; brisket, fresh or corned, on bone, 4d; legs of mutton, ssd; chops, 6|d; neck and breast, 3]d; sides of mutton, sd; hind-quarter of lamb, lOd; forequarter, Bd. REDUCTION IN AUCKLAND BASED ON FAT STOCK VALUES. By Telegraph.— Frege Association Auckland, Last Night. The retail prices of meat will be reduced in Auckland from Monday next. The reductions vary from |d to 2d per lb and are based on the average values for fat stock at last week’s sales.