SCARCITY OF BEEF.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10205, 5 April 1911, Page 5

SCARCITY OF BEEF.

DEAR MEAT PROBABLE. i ' Meat will.probably be very dear this winter, especially beef,- says the Dunedin Star. Butchers, not only ;in Dunedin, but all through New Zealand, are beginning to wonder wheire their supplies are to come firm. It is not only butchers who are talking of the scarcity of beasts, but graziers also, and those engaged in the farmers' agency line of business. "B£ef is going to be dearer here this coming spring than ever we have seen it before" was the opinion given this weet; by a prominent butcher, and this view was confirmed by people in other businesses which require a knowledge of stock and markets:

The present "price of beef is 30s pet 1001b, aricr ihis is the season of the year when meat is cheapest. It is fully expected by next spring that "butchers wiil have to pay £2 per lOOlbs" for it. The rise to that price will probably be gradual, and it is quite possible that the ascending, process will begin very soon indeed. A rate of £2 per lOOlbs would be higher than ruled last spring, when beef was undeniably dear. "Forty shillings a hundred" would take the market to the record reaehe.l here during tho time of the Boer war,, and housewives <>till remember their butchers' bills of that time.