TO KILL TRUSTS
PRICES CONTROLLED. MARGIN OF PROFIT. RESPECTIVE RATES. [The London Corporation Markets Committee, for the guidance of the public, has issued a first list of the proper retail meat prices wherein it is stated that an allowance has been made for a reasonable margin of profit.] BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT (Received Nov. 22, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. The respective prices per pound are as follows: Rump steak, 2s 8&d; sirloin, Is 10d to 2s Id; mutton, legs and loins, Is G4d; lamb, legs and loins, Is *lO l-6d. The Daily Herald, discussing the suggested scheme for the control of meat supplies, says that without communal purchase and distribution with .fixed prices the scheme will do/nothing to restrict the operations of meat trusts, which.at present dominate the markets. Tlie explanation of the rise in prices is that there is a- real shortage of. mut-' ton this year, the deficiency being nearly two million carcases.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 5
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157TO KILL TRUSTS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 5
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