PRICE OF MEAT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 July 1913, Page 4

PRICE OF MEAT.

Indications are not wanting that the price of .meat tio consumers in New Zealand will be considerably increased as time' goes on. There aire several reasons for supposing that this jWill be the case. In the first place, the export of x/iutton and beef is increasing out of ratio to the increase of our flocks and herds. In the second piace,/ ths subdivision of large, estates and the higher values of land are compelling settlers to derote | their attention to dairying and inj tense, cultivation. In the third ' placwj «u.f kome oonsmnptioa i» in-

oreasing rapidly from year to year# The whole of these elements are coa*tributing towards high-priced .meat, and it is only a question of,time when consumers will have to pay «>t least 50 per cent, wore for prime beef or mutton than they do to-day. The settler fl might, in the. meantime, do something to relieve the situation % devoting themselves a little more energetically to fat siocJt raising. If, for instance, the wheat growers of Canterbury were to abandon oeraai production in favour of fat iamb raising, they might benefit themselves and the generat community.