The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01

committee, Is the acquisition Of Forest
Reserve lands for use in pasturing cat
tie and this 10 possible through proc Ia
nation of the Governor upon recon
mendation Of the board Of agriculture
and forestry. This board, however, is
not Obliged to heed the suggestions Of
the food commission no matter how ur-
gently required they may be. This Ia
said to be an easily remedied over
sight.
7 Producers of beef are not subject
TO license" Administrator Child said
yesterday land the only way in which
we can regulate their prices Is through
an agreement with them. There is no
denying the fact that the producer IA
the man who 10 getting the money, and
he Is the man TO be struck at, IL any
tstriking il to be done. But the graziers
cannot and must not be expected to
enter into this agreement until their
! herds are reinforced and built up TO an
extent where Importation Of beef, to
Hawaii may be discontinued 20,
Mr. Child said he believed the pro,
duction of cattle might be regulated
by the Territory under the same ter.
ritorial law which permitted the ap-
Pointment Of the territorial food com
mission.
Albert Horner, chairman Of the
! special committee which Investigated
the food situation, said yesterday that
in his opinion the cattlemen would find
it much to their interests IL some Of
the unused lands Of the Territory could
be thrown open FOR cattle ranges.
Parker Ranch Blamed
In one of the meetings of the Terri
torial Food Commission, Harold Rice
OF the KaOnOulu Ranch, Maui, placed
! the blame of the domination Of the
beef market on the shoulders Of the
1 Parker Ranch Of Hawaii. In this
statement, also, he asserted that meat
was then being retailed on Maui fol
the price that was being secured by
4 wholesalers in Honolulu where the
Parker Ranch beef controls the market
As beginning Of its supervision Of
the local retail meat market the Fede
raj Administration notified meat re-
tailers yesterday that hereafter prices
of meat per pound will have to be
displayed where the public can see
them as fish prices are displayed. Thit
order was given to the meat retailers
about the city as we'll as to stall mer
at the market.
An Entering Wedge
~ haven't any doubt that there hai
been as mnch underhand trading among
kmeat sellers sas ever there was in tbs
fish business, - said Eben Low of thI
food administration, yesterday. al
had case reported to me yesterday
where q customer at the meat market
had been charged a dollar for two and
three-quarters pounds of beef. 1t il
more difficult TO establish a genera
scale of prices for meat than it was
for fish, but the entering wedge in that
work win be the display of prices pei
pound.'
The food administration has found
the attempt to bring picked and dried
fish within the pound price rule in
cludes many things concerning the
wholesaler 3 methods. One of these
difficulties Is the fact that the 2OC
pound barrels Of picked salmon which
are sold to the retailers weigh only on
/ an average of 1875 pounds. Wholesale
prices per pound for this fish vary
from fourteen to sixteen cents, and the
prices in the market vary from eigh
teen cents to twenty cents per pound