HAWKING MEAT.

Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 2

HAWKING MEAT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—ln Tuesday’s issue of your paper a “local” appeared in the way of a complaint from a master butcher as to meat being hawked after closing hours. Perhaps that butcher is losing trade; therefore seeks protection through the paper. Can fie deny that butchers have been on a good wicket ever since war time? Meat has never decreased in price, no matter how aheap stock has been selling at Burnside sales. Within these last few weeks stock has boon selling at a very much lower rate-; yet the butchers have not reduced their prices accordingly. Oh, no; that would be doing their fellow' creatures a good turn. Yet when a man shirts with a hawking cart there is a roar. To the working man——yes, and the man of means—these li a wiring carts and stationary motors have come as a blessing, and long may they remain. Where there is a big'family to bo catered for, at shop prices ono can scarcely get a look at moat, let alone a taste, if this hawking of meat is doing such an injustice to the Butchers, they seem to thrive on it, nevertheless. I for one cannot sport a motor car, nor yet a seaside residence. But 1 am quite willing to be one of those who flout the law. as it suits my pocket nicely. 1 say live and let live, and may the wharf butchery and hawking carts long live. —! am', etc., Prkiiogatxve. July 9.