REGULATING MEAT PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 4

REGULATING MEAT PRICES.

T I FROZEN MEAT SELLING WELL. BHFECT ON STOCK SALES. .'By Telegraph.—Special to "Star. ,, ) 'CiaRISTCaUROH, this day. " The Christclmrch public has taken to the consumption of frozen meat with avidity. A butcher at Addington market yesterday said that but for this new development acting as a brake on competition amongst butchers, prices at Addityton would have soared to famine rates and a retail rise to a considerable extent would have been inevitable The amount of fat cattle offering was the smallest on record. Under the circumstances it was inevitable that prices' should advance, and, although a rise of several pounds a hee.l nctually occurred this advance would" have been trebled it it had not been for the factor of frozen meat. The supply of fat sheep, l proportionately ' was even worse, about one-third of the normal retirements being yarded, but the advance in prices , was remarkably low under the circum- I twt-n 1 !: iS Btated b - v that theie will be no retail rise in meat in i most cases. A large number of appli- 1 cations were lodged to-day far supplies of meat from the freezing works. Such moat is retailing on an about 2d per lb below the prfce to? the resh artzcle. The wholes/c riae per Id for bacon, sanctioned by Mr W «. McDonald (chairman of the "Board of"I SS, *"*£?* vcto . ed . b y the Prime .Minister. Iho permission given "by Mr. McDonald a week ago to rake prices was made after fuU invention, and was considered by the tradn to-be thoroughly justified™ pric« which curers have to pay at auction f£ mc pigs. A representative of the local curers said to-day that for three months n an endeavour to obtain theVl had. been buying at unpr o fita.l>£ 'price* fo-day, owing to the Prime MinLter'e « °n n i' at aUCtion "lumped to ofd to r m d r (lasfc week tt «y «*S iid : tlJineSa n b7 W ° Ul,l hilV ° t0 Suffer - lb, b-.H the farmer could not sell at thl price. The preont wholesale 'ice oi 1/1 J per lb was fixed fcvo years M was based on the rate of 7Jd poMb for Pigs paid in the North Ulanrl w , pointed out that, wWktK «f 1 iixed price for pork. A buyer <.r,,i t much more for a intern? UT **? k than .be-could for bacon! * '° r P ° rk ,