MEAT IN BRITAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14365, 17 May 1920, Page 5

MEAT IN BRITAIN

DIMINUTION IN CONSUMPTION. WARTIME HABITS CONTINUED. PH ICES TOMIB REDUCED. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) Received May 16, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 14. The Food Minister i.Mr McCurdy), in a statement said that as regards the glut of meat imported from Australasia that this was due to the rapid diminution of the requirements of the Allied forces on the termination of the war. Tile British people temporarily were eating 500,000 tons less fresh meat annually than normally. They were only eating 31b now, compared with 411) before the war. The only apparent explanation was that the war-time habits had not yet been forgotten. The Government had decided to reduce the wholesale price of mutton from the 'all-round figure of 9d to prices ranging from 6id to 9d, and the retail control o.f prices will be removed. He expressed the opinion that a drastic reduction would tend to steady and even lower the prices of other commodities. He declared that only one-half of one per centum of all the meat handled had been condemned.