LOCAL MEAT SUPPLY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15978, 21 November 1919, Page 7

LOCAL MEAT SUPPLY.

To the Editor. Sir,—l was very pleased to see someone bringing up the question of the frozen • meat which is being sold in this town. I’ve had some; very good it is, too; but I don’t see why, if it can be sold in Auckland for 2d lb less than fresh, it cannot be sold at the same price here. There is a sure way of knowing frozen meat. Let it stand on a dish for a while, and you will find all the blood has run into the dish. It is drained like the Jews Kosher meat, hut I don’t think it is any the worse for that. I ate a good deal of frozen meat in Queensland, when the State butchers’ shops brought down the price of rump steak from Is 2d lb to 8d lb, morned beef to 3-£ d, and all other meat in proportion. 1 think the profiteers are really doing a good work for ns after all, as it will eventually mean State grocery depot, drapery depot, butcher’s depot, etc., with all these middlemen’s profits done away with. Even in conservative old England we see, by the cable, the State is opening restaurants and ironmongery and crockery shops. New Zealand? don’t lanbehind!.—Yours, etc., ° HOUSEWIFE.