GRADING OF MEAT
THE RETAIL TRADE NO APPARENT CHANGE The grading of meat for the retail trade, which came into operation in Gisborne shops after the holidays, has not so far had any appreciable effect, said local butchers yesterday. Although the scheme had not been really tried out, they said, it was doubtful whether any great change would be noticed later. The majority of consumers are accustomed to purchasing quality meat, and for this reason the new regulations will not come as a noticeable change. “People are continuing to buy exactly the same as before,” one butcher said. A complain made by one retailer was that beasts for which he had paid £lO and £6 10s respectively were both graded second. Customers, he said, would have no hesitation in choosing the former, yet the poorer quality was graded the same.
Grading on the hoof, to free butchers of the risk of grading down after a purchase has been made at the standard wholesale price, was not considered necessary by one butcher. Experience in buying, he thought, was a 'sufficient safeguard.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21607, 9 January 1945, Page 2
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