PRICES FOR MEAT
BUTCHERS WANT INCREASES WELLINGTON, Sept. 5.
"The position in regard to retail meat prices generally is that the master butchers throughout the Dominion have agreed to present their case for higher margins covering increased costs to the Price Tribunal through the New Zealand Master Butchers' Association,'' said the Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan), replying to an urgent question asked by Mr A. J. Murdoch (Nat., Marsden) in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Minister said that the association submitted its case to the Tribunal in writing on August 7, and by oral evidenpe 011 August 28. The Tribunal was at present examining the case which had been presented, but further trading accounts had .yet to be submitted to the Tribunal, after which final consideration would be given to the matter.
Meanwhile the high prices being paid by butchers at auction sales were due to the competitive auction system, which butchers were not willing to abandon.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 237, 5 September 1945, Page 5
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