THE PRICE OF MEAT
AIUST GO CP. (Special to the Times). DUNEDIN. Sept. 22. Speaking to a pressman a well known local butcher iiwluv said —"The butchering trade has been in such an unsatisfactory condition that T would be pleased to take six months' holiday. At ihc auction prices ruling at Burnside to-day it is a matter of impossibility for butchers to continue selling at the present retail prices. AA'e have been paying increased prices at Burnside, and up till now the retail price hits not been increased. During the last- four weeks previous to to-day the price id cattle has risen £2 a head, and during the same period sheep have also advanced Billy 7,5. We have been paying ami hanging off in the hope that prices would not go any higher, hut to-day settles it. (n (lie face of the strong competition offering from exiinrlcrs it is inevitable that the retail price must go tip. and very likely straight away."
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Southland Times, Issue 17764, 24 September 1914, Page 3
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162THE PRICE OF MEAT Southland Times, Issue 17764, 24 September 1914, Page 3
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