meat price order

Grey River Argus, 2 December 1943, Page 2

meat price order

RETAIL BUTCHERS “AT WITS END.”

WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. A recommendation that retail butchers throughout New Zealand disregard the price order which fixes the retail price of meat, and adjust prices in accordance with the ruling market, or wholesale prices, was made at a representative meeting ot New Zealand Master Butchers’ Association, held in Wellington yesterday The recommended adjustment is in order that retail butchers may obtain the same unit of profit as ruled on September 1, 1939. . “Retail butchers have been at their wits end lately because of the unfairness of the price order 98, which fixes the retail price of meat, ’ said Mr Mountjoy, Dominion Secretary of the Master Butchers’ Association in commenting to-day on the outcome of yesterday’s meeting. The price order gives no consideration whatever to retail butchers for any increases in the purchase of stock, or meat above 36s per lOOlbs. Ever since the first meat price order was brought into force by the Price Tribunal, retail butchers throughout the Dominion have been discontented and dissatisfied with the conditions laid down in the price order. Whilst the meat price order fixes the retail price of meat to the general public, it does not fix the price of stock or wholesole price of meat to the retail butcher, and with the fluctuations that have taken place owing to shortages of beef available, retail butchers have for many months past been compelled to sell beef at a direct loss.