MEAT GRADING SCHEME

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 284, 30 November 1944, Page 3

MEAT GRADING SCHEME

TO OPERATE NEXT WEEK

Buyers favoured only primer grades of beef at the Westfield fat stock markets yesterday in view of tne meat grading system for the retail market to be brought into operation in Auckland on Monday. - ft® scheme will also be introduced W Christchurch and Dunedin next .week. It has been operating in Wellington since November, 19-13. In the remaining abbatoir districts it will come into force on January 1. distinguish grades coloured E,jii j S used. One red stripe first grade meat, whether ortn' ' P° rk ' Jamb or mutton, wnile second grades will carry a vio-wh-wPf' first grade hogget, of wnich there is only one grade, will De marked with two red stripes. For some meats there will be a third grade, which will be denoted by one «ti, w s . tr ipe, and a boner grade, which will carry two green stripes. Any meat, which by reason of its method of preparation, cannot carry the coloured marking, must have a ° n s k° w * n £ its Prices ruling on the introduction El? y?®- flx the values for first praae. Prices for second grade will \it P e T CGnt below first grade, and «or ihird grade, 40 per cent below nrst grade.