"EAT MORE BEEF"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 10

"EAT MORE BEEF"

DISPARITY IN BUYING AND SELLING PRICES. ,

(IT miGRArH.—PRIB3 ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 9th May, The Meat Producers'. Board, in a circular letter, asked for the co-operation of the Canterbury A. and P. Association in its "eat more beef" campaign. The letter was discsused at a meeting of the general committee of the association to-day. The chairman (Mr. R. E. Alexander) remarked that if the general public got beef at a price proportionate to that at which butchers bought it, there would be little need for a campaign. Beef, though being bought at certain rates, at the yards, was just as dear as ever to the consumer. If the board was going to control prices for export, why'should } it not control prices in the Dominion, and so encourage the consumers to eat beef. Mi\ H. S. S. Kyle asked if that ! should not bo done by the Board of Trade. The chairman said he did not think that the attention of that board had been called to the matter. It was a very serious matter to the producers of-the Dominion. Mr. K. J. S. Murchison said that there was a body in Chrifltchuroh inquiring at .present as to the cost of landing mutton and beef, into butchers' shops, the idea being to test if the butchers were putting prices too high. The chairman remarked that the butchers were buying beef and selling it at disproportionate prices. It was decided to write to the Boardi of Trade drawing attention to the disparity between the buying and _ selling prices of beef, wholesale and retail.