PRICE OF MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 8

PRICE OF MEAT

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l was pleased to see "Interested's" letter in .Tuesday's "Post," showing that someone was concerned about the price of meat. Surely, the correspondent is not altogether right in stating that all except finest grades of meat are sold by freezing companies to local butchers for local consumption. It is generally understood that New Zealand butchers bought stock on the hoof to have slaughtered to provide fresh meat for local consumption and I believe and understand they do. Surely we do not get only second-class frozen meat to eat in New Zealand. Does Mr. Mountjoy agree that this is so?

Mr. Mountjoy mentions wether mutton bringing 9d a lb, and this is different from the first-grade wether selling in London at 4 3-8 dto 5Jd per lb. as mentioned in my London quotations. Lamb, we might say, is a luxury and we can wait till it comes down in price, but every day mutton and beef should not be selling at the prices butchers seem to be compelled to charge, because it is the daily food of thousands—many hundreds of thousands — of our people.—l am, etc.,

PURCHASER.