RETAIL MEAT TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 10

RETAIL MEAT TRADE.

EVII »BNCE BEFORE COMMISSION. LONDON, Feb. 4. The Food Commission heard the evidence oi representatives of the retail meat trade, including Mr Collingo '(president) and ot ler officials of the National Federation of the. Meat Trades Association, who mf de a joint statement, declaring that the clurgos of profiteering by the retailers wei b absurdly untruo, that the retailing of Tieat was done at less than 20 per cent, a' erage gross profit on the cost, and that rhi reased supplies could alone reduce the pri:e. They asked that the restrictions or the importation of Canadian cattle be rem>ved and that all imported cattle from tl e Dominion be placed on the same footing as imports from Ireland. Replying to Mr Dudley, a member of the con mission, with regard to the statement t lat the importing companies did not control the meat prices, Mr Collinge expressed the emphatic opinion that the importi ig companies consulted each Other and ins.ructed their repreientatives in the markets concerning wie price*.—A. and N.Z. ci bit.