BRAN AND POLLARD AND THE PIG INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 9

BRAN AND POLLARD AND THE PIG INDUSTRY.

[Published by Arrangement.]

What would prove a deadly boomerang for the pig industry is being blindly advocated in certain quarters in the form of the removal of wheat duties. Under present conditions with the wheat industry stabilised local supplies of bran and pollard are assured. It is common knowledge that the removal of duties would bring about a rapid decline'of the Dominion's wheat industry and, therefore, the buyers of offals would be dependent upon other countries and would inevitably experience periods when bran and pollard would soar to high prices and occasionally be unobtainable. This is simply because, flour would be imported instead of wheat. Australia, for instance, has very little surplus bran and pollard and prefers to export flour than wheat.

It is doubly certain that flour would be imported instead of wheat because experience has shown that it is cheaper to import flour than to import wheat to be milled in. New Zealand.

Those ill the pig industry who have an eye to the future and are aware of past experiences of outside buying, will certainly not lend support to any movement calculated to place the wheat and flour supplies of New Zealand into the hands of the importers, leaving those requiring bran and pollard with no guaranteed source of supplies.