TRADE CONFESSIONS.
TO TIIF, EDITOR. Sir,—l do not think "Butcher 80y, , ' or those in whose interests he writes, has much claim on the sympathy of the public, that because of one of our farmers sending carcases to auction his profit is somewhat " cur"-tailed. (I am not alluding here to the "small goods" department—-sausages, for instance), for three hundred per cent, is a great deal too much for any class of tradesmen to look for in these hard times. Butchers must have a pretty penny put by according even to this account of one of the trade. But, Sir, what I look at i-* this : We may hop out of tho frying pan into the fire, for if two or three sheep and no beef are sent to auction prices will go amongst as high for the farmer as they have for the butcher. Lot tho meat be font in wholesale, and sold at a fair wholesale price, and give the poor hard-working labouring man the chance of gettjng a bigger joint than ordinary," farmer and consuiner dividing the profits above cost price, in'fair propor T tion —Yours truly, Labqureu. Hamilton Wost.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2
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191TRADE CONFESSIONS. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2
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