The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-06
PRICES Of MEATS
VARY W|DELYF FOR
Different PIECES
Cuts Found To Vary Widely In
Prices As In Quality With
TWenty-Cent Range
SOME ISLAND BEEF AS
GOOD AS THAT IMPORTED
Much Veal Is Brought To Hawaii
Even Though Hoover Has
Asked Abstinence !.

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Beef can be bought for any number
OF prices in the local markets by Mrs
Average Housekeeper, when she goes
shopping for n nice bit Of meat for sup.
per for father and the children. Prices
asked at retail yesterday ranged from
seventeen and one-half cents 10 thirty.
seven cents. In many cases identical
cuts sold for widely differing prices at
different markets.
The highest priced beef was imported
meat from California and the western
packing houses. Some Of the island
beef at the lower prices was just as
good, in spite Of the information given
out that island cattle have suffered
SO from drought that the meat was
stringy and without snet. Only one
piece of this sort was seen Yesterday.
The cheaper cuts do not show such
a range Of prices, as there was not
more than Ave cents difference between
highest and lowest. Their quality was
practically NIL the same.
Prices Are Compared
The Metropolitan market asked the
highest price for porterhouse, though
for the other cuts its prices were no
higher than Yee Hops. Both Of them
were a few cents more than some of
the others. At the Metropolitan the
other cuts were as follows: Hamburger
steak, ready ground, twenty-five cents;
stewing beef, eighteen cents; rolled
roast, of rather poor quality meat
without good suet, twenty seven cents;
pot roast, twenty-five cents.
Most of the beef sold Mt the Metro.
politan is imported from the mainland.
; il took a part Of the shipment made
on the Maui two weeks ago, when she
came down here with her icehouse
filed with bottled beer and meat half
and half. Part of the meat shipped into
the Territory at that time for the Ha-
waii Meat Company was veal.
Q. Q. zee Hops market was next
in price to the Metropolitan. II was
selling porterhouse steak for thirty
five cents, Hamburger for twenty five,
stew for eighteen, and rolled roast,
made of the best part of the rib meat
with plenty of suet, thirty-fve cents.
Lower Prices 4, a. 81. So.
. In the fish market stalls prices were
lower, though some Of the meat was
not Of the frstygpality. Surroundings
also at the market are perhaps not so
attractive and elean.looking as at some
of the larger places, but for those who
go to the market themselves and choose
their own pieces of beef il is possible
to get just as good meat there as any
where in town. For the telephone
trade the fish market butchers would
not be so desirable as the quality Of
their beef is probably not so depend
able. p
At one stall porterhouse was thirty
five cents, Hamburger twenty, stewing
meat eighteen, and pot roast twenty.
five. Porterhouse Of fine quality was
for sale at another stall for thirty
cents, while Hamburger was twenty
five and stew meat seventeen and one
half. 49,. f.,
In the market across the street stall
with no name had some poor island
beef with no fat on il selling at TWEEN
ey-seven and one half cents a pound
for porterhouse, twenty-five and one
half for Hamburger, and twenty cents
for stew. One butcher near there had
some of the best.looking beef in any
of the markets. 1t was island meat,
and the prices were twenty-five cents
for porterhouse, twenty cents for Ham.
burger, and twenty cents for stewing
meat. These were the lowest prices
fonnd.
At the Paragon market the prices
yesterday were thirty cents for porter
house, twenty-five cents for Hamburger,
and twenty cents for stew.
Questions Are Answered
Answers to the letters sent out by
the food commission to the meat dealers
are being received daily. The Hawaii
Meat Company, instead Of answering
any questions, referred the commission
to A. W. Carter, one of their directors
A retail dealer writes that he paid
sixteen cents a pound for beef month
ago, as opposed to fifteen cents six
months ago and thirteen and One-half
cents one year ago.
When the answers are all in the com
mission will be able to take further
steps. It is probable that a public
hearing will be held as in the milk
and fish situations. With the cheap
est possible cut of beef at seventeen and
one.hah cents pound, and other
prices ranging upward to thirty-seven
cents, when beef is bought wholesale
for sixteen cents, il is claimed by house
keepers, there should be room for
much Improvement once the food COM
mission gets at the heart of the mat.
ter