LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MEAT AND STOCK PRICES Sir, —“Inquisitive’s” letter expos* ing the big profit the butchers at present are making out of meat suggests the query: Why don’t the farmers cooperate and run shops in the town, and kill and sell their own stock? If there is such a big profit, and undoubtedly there is, surely the farmers themselves could do something to reduce the alleged “robbing” by middlemen that, he speaks of. It is not only the producers who suffer, but the general public also. An English butcher, a recent arrival from tho Old Country, remarked to me upon the low prices the farmers get here compared with what the butchers pay at Home for stock. No wonder farming does not pay well in New Zealand! I hope “Inquisitive” and other farmers will see the advisability of form ing a company, and run shops of their own in opposition to the present combine. SMALL FARMER. August 8.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19914, 9 August 1927, Page 6
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