The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-02
BOOST lNPRICE
'.0F MILK HALvED
Raise Of Two Cents Per Quart
Cut To One, But Meat Is
HolstedTwO Gents a Pound

Thanks TO the investigation made by
the food commission, milk win not gc
up two cents per quart. It will 20 ur
one cent as a temporary experiment
u is the fond hope Of the commission
that u may even be possible to OBJ.
tain the thirteen cent rate again some
time N the not too distant future
Pints will go up half a cent instead
Of one cent, making them seven aud
one.hRlf cents each. 3D., -s5 ~
I These prices we're offered by the
Dairymen 5 Association as a voluntary
compromise after the meeting of yes,
terday. They were accepted by the
food commission today as Temporary
prices only In case the association
attempts o raise again later the com.
mission will hold another investigation
to determine whether or not such q
raise is justified, and il conditions
seem TO warrant later they win insist
that the price be lowered further to
the thirteen-eent rate.
And Now It's Meat
The raise made by the Metropolitan
Market yesterday of two cents on the
better cuts of beef was the ,occa sion
~ Q resolution empowering the ex.
ecutive officers, A. L. Castle and J. +.
Child, 10 comm ance an investigation
of the meat situation at once. 1t il
the opinion of the food Commission
that raise at this time is hardly JUST.
1ed, is, a....
1--WE have advanced the price two
cents a pound on the choicer cuts of
beef, - Antoine LOWS, manager OF the
Metropolitan Market, stated yesterday
"The rate to boarding houses and no.
tells is raised one cent. The raise Is
necessary as we have to pay the pro-
Queer one cent more than we have
been doing. q"
/ In other words, because of an in
crease of one cent pound wholesale
the unlueky ultimate consumer has 10
dig up two cents more for each pound
Why the extra cent is added will in.
terest the food commission greatly,
The enc cent wholesale raise does not
add one tiny fraction to the overhead
expense, but another cent is tackled on
to the retail price for some reason
known only to the market management,
though there might be strong sus.
picion that it is because every little
bit helps to swell the profits. F4's't
Veal Imported ....a..
Either the demand should be cut
down or the production of island beet
should be increased, in the opinion of
the commission, in order that there
shall be no necessity of importing beef
No beef has been imported for some
time until the last trip Of the Will
helmina, when she brought down forty
quarters of beef for, the local market
On the last trip of the Maui half Of
the icehouse capacity was taken VI
with cold storage meat, Of which part
was beef and part veal. One of the
preachmentst of the food administra
tion on the mainland has been to eat
no veal whatever during the war, al
the meat value of fun grown steer
is so much greater, and every calf kill
ed is meat animal less But Hawaii
imports veal just the same. ..,,a ,
No butter or dairy products or eggs
could be brought on the last Maui, as
all the ieehOuse space not given u
meat was taken up by several carloads
of beer, which is, Of course, a neces
sity far greater than butter or eggs in
a civilized community, especially wber
butter and eggs are so scarce that the
price goes higher every day the short
age continues, .,..'.. ...,
The cheaper cuts of meat are not in
cluded in the raise at the metropolitan
Market. G. Q. Yee Hop has not an
nounced any raise in meat prices.