THE PRICE OF MEAT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14341, 10 July 1914, Page 8

THE PRICE OF MEAT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l :nn sure tliat tin. 1 hundreds 01 hou-ewive.s of Wanganui road “Master ilntcher s’ loft;”.' m last nijrlit"Herald.” ro tho above question, with tours .<i thoir eyes. Tho loiter was so touchy arid so pathetic that all must have to It like 1 did. Lot the poor butcher blood •ho people as ho (low lus sheep. and uu'te no mono noise than the poor animal ho intersects to make so much money out of! As I lumpon to hail from Auckland, 1 would like to know if “Master ilutchov' v.'iil tel! us when Auckland butchers got ihc a;uo prices as Wanganui butchers arc chunking now. Ho states distinctly in Ids letter that such warn the ease, and L say that our meat was at the very least twopence and threepence tier H. cheaper than what the local butchers are now charging. “Master Butcher" says that ho ha-- yet to see one (a butcher') driving his own inolor-ear. I do not know ail (die butchers in Wanganui, sc 1 cauot challenge his statement. 1 deknow one. however, ami ho deals in pork pools, and I have frequently seen him oat with ids family in a motor-ear. So much for the accuracy of some of “Master Butcher's" statements. I’urthennore. how much docs a butcher loser All hide; and skins are sold at a pood price; and what cannot be converted into spot cash is turned into sausage meat, and sold at a substantial proiit. “Master Butcher'' is correct, though, when he says, “The present system. with its attendant bad debts, is wasteful in the extreme.” At the same time, there is no one to blame for this but the butchers themselves. They have the remedy in their own hands, Ttecaine a few people, comparatively speaking, pel ou (be bonks, it is decidedly unfair to blister a community with famine prices. M“ wide has just informed me that the price of meat is to be substantially reduced at the end of the mouth. t am glad to bear it. The price should never have pone up. It. .seems to me there ,-hnnld be ,-omo kind of a i-ociety iu (be (own to protect the community against ibe "Hct-Bich-Quick Mr Trailer,'’ of V-'nima'iin. I am, etc., FAT?. riLAJd.