The Board of Trade and Meat Prices
The Board of Trade announce that at a meeting of the Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Meat Traders Associations, held at the Board of Trade on the 17th May, the effect on the meat trade of the increased requirements of the British and French armies and of the relative shortage of vessels equipped for the conveyance of meat from overseas was discussed. The Advisory Committee expressed the opinion that the recent daily and weekly fluctuations of supplies in the wholesale markets rendered it difficult to fix average quotations. They expressed the opinion that the only was of avoiding a further advance in price in the near future would be an appreciable reduction of the demand by the civilian population. The Board of Trade, having considered the report of the Advisory Committee, wish to call the attention of the public to the great importance of restricting the consumption of meat, with a view to economising the national supplies and avoiding an excessive increase of price.
Banbury Guardian, May 1915