USE OF FROZEN MEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17293, 17 October 1919, Page 8

USE OF FROZEN MEAT.

INCREASING IN POPULARITY. [BT TKtJBcaiPH. — CORRESPONDENT.] CHBISTCHUBCH. Thursday. The high price to which live stock has men at the Addington mtock market recently has moved most of the Christy ci'iy and suburban butchers to take advantage of the regulations which permit them t'' obtain frozen meat from the freezing >v. rks at the Imperial, prices. 'Lie prejudice which undoubtedly ev.isted against the use of frozen meat as an article of diet among New Zealandera is fact breaking down, and Christchorch. citizens are buying frozen meat freely, and find that there is very little, if any, noticeable differerce between fresh and chilled meat when properly cooked and served. Complaints are made, however, that butchers are charging more than they should for the frozen meat, and one specific instance has been mentioned •where a customer was charged at the rate of 10<J per pound for a leg of frozen mutton. As first quality nether mutton can In- procured ex store at the rate, of iyjd per pound, it seeraed as thimgh therft was jnotice in the complaint. inquiries were therefore made from representative butchers on the matter. The result fteeims to indicate that the price was .slightly more than reasonable, unless there Tvere special cirenrnetances connected with the transaction.