BRITISH MEAT GLUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 117, 17 May 1920, Page 5

BRITISH MEAT GLUT.

DECREASE IN CONSUMPTION. LONDON , . May 13 (delayed). The Food Minister, Mr. C. A. McCurdy, in a statement on the meat situation said that as regards the glut of i meat imported from Australia and Zealand, this was due to the rapid l diminution of the requirements of thej Allied forces on the termination of the I war. The British people temporarily were eatin<r 500.000 tons less meat I annually than normally. They were I only eating 31b now compared with 411) I before the war. The only apparent explanation iwts the war-time habits ; ha<l not yet been forgotten. The Govern- ; ment had decided to reduce the -n-hole- i sale price of mutton from the all-round ( figure of 1W per lb to prices ranging j from OJd to 9d per lb. The control of retail prices would be removed. Ho expressed the opinion that this drastic reduction would tend to steady and p-ven lower the prices of other com- j modities. He declared that only J. per centum of all meat handled had been condemned. — (Press Association.) ,