THE MEAT TRADE
BUTCHERS ALARMED
PROTECTION ASKED AGAINST
FREEZING WORKS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Butchers in Christchurch and throughout New Zealand are gravely concerned over the question of the growing competition by freezing works in the retail • trades in Christchurch. The Master Butchers' Association is enlisting the support of the City Council and the Farmers' Union in its representations to the Government for protection of the legitimate trade.
Giving an example of the extent of this trade, the president of the Canterbury Master Butchers' Association (Mr. T. W. Stephenson) said . today, that last month one freezing works adjacent to Christchurch sold to retail customers 1963 carcasses of mutton and lamb and 98 pigs. Other works did business on a similar scale. Lawyers, doctors, and the proprietors of some large hotels were among those who patronised the works. "The hotels are among the worst," Mr. Stephenson said. "They get most of their meat from the.works and then come to the butcher for prime cuts', picking , the eyes out of his stock and expecting him to dance attendance upon them."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 11
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180THE MEAT TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 74, 24 September 1936, Page 11
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