Meat Prices
Sir-, —After a good deal of moaning about price control and their statements that it tended to keep prices high the butchers induced the Minister to remove it. The Minister stated that if prices were not reduced, as the butchers stated would happen he would not hesitate to restore control. One speaker for the butchers said that lamb would be 6d per pound cheaper. I bought a leg of lamb recently; it cost me 14s 6d and it weighed 41b bare—--3s 71d per pound. At that time lamb was bringing about Is a pound at Addington. How is that for profit? Now is the time for the Minister to get moving. Since price control was removed meat has been dearer all round What does the producer think of it? It is time he woke up; also the consumer.— Yours, etc., NEW ZEALANDER, 75. March 21, 1962
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29778, 22 March 1962, Page 3
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