RISE IN BUTCHERS MEAT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 48, 26 February 1906, Page 4

RISE IN BUTCHERS MEAT.

TO Iff* KDItOB/ f'4 ' filr,— "AiwftJiflsnV' Aoltm of ths butehw^atipubUnhtdAnrfpiie J««ae o;^tbe , 16tfa lnnL, Ja'roply 1 to ''H6u«ehoMfr's" -'■ eomplalni- against tbt trade 'of excawive i ch*rge». 4» > weak , in the - e,xtreme/f<ahd ■ __ ' very misleading. Hist statement tba I'the ' butcher* will sell a quarter or hkll o, eh««p or a bullock ,ati< 4d ;,t>er ll^ido«s not alter the /act' 'that their avdfage all-round retail price is 6d per lßj as their mice^ Ms Jndwute, Oa thither - hantf, 'what are- tho .butdhewi Mmihen Actuill*. wing lot thtt ' WMiffc? <~ ' Th« wim«st weth«w are, nearly, all puvchwid. for lh« London market, ;flo«a«iti^iitJyr d >- larger portfon of the * mutton retailed! „ in New, Zealand Is grow .ovtrwei^hK wethers, wte old ewes, for , which; last- * H9m& ■• cla«» • the ' farmer, j'flcelveg/'from' »'• IP WIU per lb, Ordinary 'centime™; ' ; cannot tell the dlffwenoe" netwien the' ■wether and tho, ewe mutton until' eat- ' ins/ when tho UnighiWin' ii'ufltV yir- » . eiptiMe; and, ini^Jirm the Tery, ; taferlor iM»b often now delir^rfld, old 1 • ' «wej|'p»«tefflfeat^. '-''■ ; ■■'■(<,>, •'. > "Amerisin" c«refallv conceals tho fact. that the batcher (besides purchasing their cattle and »h«ep at the, present/ loir prices) i*r* iIT«. b*n«flfc;,of;the p«ia, i ' : itMes, ete,"tt*/d'Vh«ri^fc li known that' th*'hid«s alone are w>nh' from 26s to ■ 30«: each, the price tho butcher pays -for : , Sf^f,Wrtt \* further teduce-d b^' that ' amottfl^ and in. quite as low as the prices avow by "Householder.'* Theti, again, , low ftbout vwl, wbJch^ After deducting 1

"the value of the skin, stands the bntoh«r In.rtme.lid per lb,.and the "rough end*" > that "American" n»f«rs to <as "losing vpoiMo'n*?" 'Ho knWii full \fell that these last come under the "smollgoodi",'heading, and are made up into eatM'ttgM<^eto., att6dper lb.' If the publi&iirt satisfied to allow the butchers to oHratft' their present war prices, and a ris» in- the market should take jplaoe and tHct'butchei'i h«,ve to nay the farm^ ore hlgbfjf figures for their stock,' consumers' bust tL«n b« pfspared for an-other-rise—a very easy thing for the trado-ieV king about while the general public 1 kre bo apathetld.— l am. etc, »•'•:. RETIRED FApiER. Wflllitogton, 22nd February, ' '■ ■ C\ sags