RIVALS OF MEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 7

RIVALS OF MEAT.

ON ENGLISH MARKET. WELLINGTON, March 14. It was remarkable the competition that had to be met in the English meat market through game such as wild fowl and hares sold at very reasonable rates, said Mr David Jones chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, when interviewed on his return to ‘Wellington from London by the llangitane yesterday. Mr Jones showed a reporter a list he had made of the retail prices of a well-known London firm for December 31 The prices were as follow . Prime fowls, Is 3d lb- ; plump chicken, Is; prims Norfolk ducks, Is 2d; prime Norfolk geese, lOd; pigeons, Is 3d to 2s 3d each; guinea fowl, 2s 6d each pheasants, cocks, 3s 9d; hens, 3s 3d English partridges, Is 4d to 3 s 9d each; hares, English and Scottish, Is 9cl to 3s each; wild ducks, 3s each, rabbits, 8d to lOd each. “They are sold in enormous quantities,” Mr Jones commented. One mm informed me that they sold more than 40,000 turkeys during Christmas and New Year. At these prices this class of meat comes into witii. lamb when lamb prices go up.