TABLE POULTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24869, 15 April 1944, Page 8

TABLE POULTRY

A NEW PRICE ORDER CEILING RATES FIXED A new price order which has been oazettcd sets out ceiling prices which may be charged for poultry for table use, the values, which are fixed by the pound weight, applying to buds dressed, stuffed and dressed and stuffed Members of the trade m Auckland have been expecting this move lor some time, and the opinion was expressed last night that the new price order would have little or no cfttct on the price of poultry to the j is anticipated that a sunilai oidei affecting the price of rabbits may be in S"prico, fixed for dressed birds under the new order, as <|noted in •> Press Association message lioni ; , i,iirton a re: —Ducklings, 4s Id per lb., dilclts, ;<S 2d; geese, 2s 0(1; ,'kl; boiling Jowls, js id; chicUns, December to March .3s 8 , P ' June, 4s 4d; July to September, 4s 8d; October to November, 4s «■ Stuffed birds are approximately 4d ptr lb less, while those stuffed and cooked are 2d per lb. more. These prices are lor A grade birds, those lor B grad_ Ww 8 to. 5.1 per Ik. hover. U wholesale prices also are fixed. Full details of the order or particulars of its application had not been received in Auckland yesterday b> either the office of the Price 1 nbunal or the Food Controller. Members of the trade stated that the ceiling prices fi\ed were about on a par with present values.. Since the introduction of meat rationing, prices for poultry had risen, but just before Faster, when supplies were lieavj, there had been a decline. It was usual for the supply and demand to flue tuate considerably at auctions. Some retailers of poultry expressed the view that the system of pare basing by the pound would be a difficult matter, but the problem which was mentioned by every one approached was the important one as to who was to carrv out the grading. irntil lull details of the new order are available the majority were not willing to comment, although it was fair .v generallv agreed that the public could not hope for any great decrease in the price of birds,. ~ , . , For a meal of hot or cold chicken, with chips, vegetables, salad, bread, butter, tea or coffee, Auckland restaurants charge between 3s 6d and 4s. In the early days of xtieat rationing restaurants sold more poultry meals, but there has not been any marked rush for supplies of birds.