THE MEAT MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 2

THE MEAT MARKET.

In their report on the frozen meat trade for the season ending 31st October last, Messrs. Gilbert Anderson and Co., London, point out that "the wide and varied sources from "which supplies of meat reach Great Britain are such as to make any artificial attempt on the part of any country, to hold back supplies fo_r high prices, one of great risk, with uncertain and perhaps disastrous z"esnlts. It is important to bear constantly in mind that the purchasing power of tho great majoiity of tho population of Great Britain is limited ; that for many there is only a certain .amount available weekly for tho purchase of meat; that any excessive high range of prices 'greatly reduces the quantity that can be purchased. The. question of the growers in th© colonies to consider is, not whether frozen meat can or- should be- sold; at the^ prices ol! English meat, but if.it is not better in their interest to promote a large and steady outlet at reasonable and regular prices as supplies are available. Eefusing to sell and holding for problematical high prices of an uncertain nature when supplies , aro lr.rge is incurring the risk of disorganissd trade/ and forces the market into other channels." , Reference is made to handling meat in London, and tho firm state that "exaggerated reports" on the handling of meat have been circulated without proper knowledge of th& qircumftances and conditions of the trade. "The fact that the bulk of the- meat that is sent to up-town stores by barges, is Iho i owner's own property, should be suffi- j cient guarantee that ifc is Well looked 1 after." j