STATE MEAT SHOPS IN AUCKLAND
ACTION BY BOARD OF TRADE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 22Following tho announcement By the butchers to increase tho retail prices of meat in Aiickland—despite the intimation by the Board o'f Trade that the Government was prepared to give them the option of drawing supplies fronv the Imperial stores, but would not sanction any increase in prices—the President of the Board of Trade now announces that two retail shops under •control of the Government shall be opened in Auckland, to sell meat for cash without delivery at a penny and itwopenco per pound below the ruling Tetail prices. The board is now negotiating for shops. Meantime the eption to the butchers holds good.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2984, 23 January 1917, Page 6
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118STATE MEAT SHOPS IN AUCKLAND Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2984, 23 January 1917, Page 6
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