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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13491, 21 September 1914, Page 6

Tlie Wellington Post reports further increases m the wholesale prices /of meat. Tho master butchers have iio\v. to pay _d a pound more for prime nnitton, or 4sd per lh, equivalent to a 12 per cent, advance. Beef has; gone up to 32s per 1001 b, another Is increase, making a total' advance of s per 1001 b m the last three weeks. Pork nas also increased _d a lb, old pigs now fetching 7d per lb. « Mr A. Cheesman, secretary of the Master Butcher's Association," states that according to reports from the south' the 'retail' butchers are paying. 1 as high as £2 per 1001 b fori freezing beef, ss' per '1001 b more than the , local butchers ace . paying whole-, sale.. The increases locally, lie says, I will not be handed on to, the public, as the butchers are very reluctant to make the consumers suffer; but this step will be. necessary if the wholesale prices are further -increased. He points out how urgent it is that the Food Prices Commission should arrive .'it its findings to prevent additional advances. It- is now a week ago since two o,f the- leading master butchers gave evidence, vbut as vet nothing further has been heard from the Commission.