Meat Prices Expected To Drop To Normal

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31167, 17 September 1966, Page 16

Meat Prices Expected To Drop To Normal

(Hew Zealand Press Association!

WELLINGTON, September 16.

Meat prices, which have been rising substantially throughout the country in the last two months, are expected to be back to normal by November.

The president of the Master Butchers’ Federation, Mr G. A. Banhan, said today that the increase was seasonal for most meats.

However, pork could be scarce, resulting in high

“The meat hardest hit seasonally is beef,” he said. “The price rise has been quite substantial. “In most cases it has risen

by 2d a pound and could rise more before November. “But no-one knows how much further pork prices will rise.”

Mr Bannan said many pig farmers had gone out of business because of the trichinosis scare.

In addition dairy factories were not supplying whey, which was going into dairy products such as dried milk instead of being fed to pigs.

An official of the Meat Board said today that there

had been a substantial decrease in the export of pork. “This season is not yet finished but it will be down considerably on the 2667 tons exported in the 1964-65 season,” he said. The president of the Wellington Housewives’ Association (Mrs H. McLennan) said last night the price of meat was the “housewives’ ” biggest • bugbear. I “It seems so unfair that | New Zealand exports its best meat and leaves us to find [something decent,” she said. I “I don’t see why we should have all our best meat exported and then have to pay such high prices for the types of meat we get,” she said.