New Zealand Gazette – 1944 – No. 30

Page 369

✨ Price Regulations for Meat



APRIL 13] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 369

(4) Thereafter, in each successive period of four weeks, the maximum retail price in the locality shall, if necessary, be adjusted, by increase or further reduction, as the case may require, at the rate of one halfpenny per pound for every full halfpenny per pound of the average increase or reduction during the preceding period of four weeks, in the prices paid by retailers, but so that in no circumstances shall the maximum retail prices fixed in accordance with clause 5 hereof and the Second Schedule hereto be exceeded.

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICE OF MEAT OTHER THAN “PRIME-QUALITY” MEAT

  1. The maximum retail price per pound of any meat of a kind mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, but of a quality other than “prime-quality,” shall be the maximum price per pound fixed in accordance with this Order as for prime-quality meat of the same kind, reduced by an amount equal to 20 per cent. thereof.

RETAILERS TO EXHIBIT RETAIL PRICES

  1. (1) Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any joints or cuts of meat to which this Order applies shall affix to each joint or cut a ticket, placard, or label on which the total retail price of such joint or cut shall be stated in legible and prominent characters.

(2) In the case of meat items which in accordance with the customary practice within the trade are offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by the joint or cut the retailer shall keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the meat to which it relates as to be obviously in relation thereto a ticket, placard, or label showing in legible and prominent characters the retail price per pound or per unit, as the case may be.

FIRST SCHEDULE
BASIC PRICES OF PRIME-QUALITY MEAT

Kind or Description of Meat. Basic Price per Pound. Kind or Description of Meat. Basic Price per Pound
(a) Veal— s. d. (d) Pork—continued s. d.
Fillet 0 11 Loin 1 0
Loin 0 9 Loin chops 1 2
Stewing 0 6 Foreloin chops 0 11
Soup meat 0 4 Foreloin 0 10
Steak 0 11 Corned hand 0 8½
Rump steak 1 2 Corned belly 0 10½
Cutlets 1 0
Rolled 0 10 (e) Lamb—
Stuffed 0 11 Fore quarter 0 10
Hind quarter 1 0
(b) Beef (Ox and Heifer)— Legs 1 2
Rump steak 1 2 Loin 1 2
Fillet steak 1 4 Loin, rib end 1 0
Thick flank or top rump steak 0 9 Chops 1 2
Porterhouse steak— Chops, crumbed 1 3
Bone in 1 2 NOTE.—The basic prices fixed for lamb shall be operative only during the period 1st January to 31st August (inclusive) in any year.
Bone out 1 6 (f) Mutton (Wether and Maiden Ewe)—
Tenderboy steak 0 10 Legs—
Topside steak 0 9 Whole 0 10
Skirt steak 0 8 Shank end, up to 6 lb. 0 11
Chuck steak 0 7 Thick end 0 10
Blade or bolar steak 0 8 Middle fillet 0 11
Stuffed steak Fore quarters—
Sirloin 0 10 Whole 0 5
Sirloin, rolled and boneless 1 1 Shank end 0 5½
Prime ribs 0 7½ Spanish neck 0 6½
Prime ribs, rolled and boneless 0 10½ Shoulders—
Chuck ribs 0 5 Whole 0 7
Chuck ribs, rolled and boneless 0 8 Shank end 0 7½
Back ribs, rolled and boneless 0 8 Blade end 0 8
Wing ribs 0 10 Necks and breast 0 5
Blade, rolled and boneless 0 8 Neck—
Topside 0 9 Best end 0 6½
Gravy beef and shin beef 0 6 Scrag end 0 5
Corned silverside 0 10 Loin—
Rolled brisket, corned or otherwise 0 7 Middle 0 10
Brisket on the bone 0 3 Rib end 0 8
Flat rib 0 4 Chops—
Legs and shins— Middle loin 1 0
Whole 0 2½ Rib 0 9
Halves, thick end 0 3 Shoulder, trimmed 0 9
Halves, knuckle end 0 2½ Leg 0 11
Thin flank 0 2 Spanish neck 0 8
Dripping 0 6 Stewing 0 7
Suet 0 4 Flap 0 5
Minced beef 0 6 Cutlets, French 1 2
Tripe— Crumbed
In North Island 0 6 Flaps (whole) 0 2
Elsewhere 0 7 Stuffed and rolled 1 0
Sausage-meat 0 5 (g) Mutton (Hogget)
(c) Beef (Cow) The respective prices fixed above for the appropriate chops, increased by 1d. per pound.
The respective prices fixed for mutton (wether and maiden ewe), increased in every case by 1d. per pound.
(d) Pork—
Stuffed 1 3
Rolled 1 2
Leg 1 0
The respective prices fixed for mutton (wether and maiden ewe), reduced in every case by 20 per cent.
(h) Mutton (Ewe, other than Maiden Ewe)

The respective price fixed for mutton (wether and maiden ewe), reduced in every case by 20 per cent.



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