"UNJUST TREATMENT."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 246, 18 October 1939, Page 12

"UNJUST TREATMENT."

MEAT PRICE DECISION. CHRISTCHURCH PROTESTS. (Bf Telegraph.—Prm Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Th« Price Investigation Tribunal's action in sanctioning higher meat prices in the Auckland district only was criticised at a special meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Master Butchers' Association this evening. A statement made officially by the executive after the meeting was . that the singling out of Auckland for preferential treatment was most unjust when the position of the butchering trade in other districts was more seriojits. "Unless the tribunal's decision for other parts of the Dominion is released immediately the position, already acute, will become desperate," ' the statement continued.