REDUCED PRICE OF MEAT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17075, 31 August 1917, Page 4

REDUCED PRICE OF MEAT.

AGREEMENT IN CHRISTCHURCH,

SAVING OF £.60,000 PER YEAR.

<PeJ Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 30 ' An agreement has been reached' between the Board of: Trade and the • ' master butchers of Christchurch in regard to the price of meat. The new agreement, which was arrived at after considerable negotiations ." between the parties, will come into operation on September Bth, and will continue in operation till December 31st. It is estimated that the reduction on. existing retail prices is equivalent to %d per lb ?S ISX? te*? °~ the P°P^atton- ol 80,000, the effect will be a reduction of £60,0.00 per year ieauc; Mr McDonald, acting-chairman of - ihe Board of Trade, said it was not proposed to immediately gazetfe the prices, although that would 4 done if.it was found that any of the butchers were not respecting the agreement. The prices fixed were " not quite as low as those obtaining Lr p-Vernment shop at A«ck! land. Prices were based upon 47 5 . or 48s, per cwt. wholesale, although " as much as 60s had been paid at ' recent markets. In the- event o*^ the wholesale market being consid- \ ered too high to enable butchers to m f l ese rates ' would be able to obtain supplies from the Impenarstores, in which event prices will have to be again considered