PIG EXPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 4

PIG EXPORT.

GRADING FOR BACON. NEW SCHEME PROPOSED. The question of placing the N"W Ze*Und ba.ouer trade in a better portion :roni the Home tia<k- point of vieir Jm been under investigation for >r,nie time br :he London manairr of the New Zealand M<Mt Producers Board. Baron cureri at Home have in some complaiaed that they cannot ie]y i.-.-.n the election when purchasing a <■•:' N>w Zealand baconer p.zs. Acconlins to ihe board'i manager it has been clearly demonstrated that there in a practically unanimoai amonsst the trade lor rtandardieed p~adios. Dr. of Master Aericultiaral ColIc?e. r<-cont!y piepaio<l «n exhaurtrre report in col'aboratjnn with the boanT* London manager on the whole oi of baconer.«. and also the need for a standard cut and trim for sides and pork legs. The matter is now under consideration by the Meat Board in ((injunction with the Department of Ajrricuhure, and it if likely that new standard.* of grading -win be brought into operation commencins with the season, whereby all baconers exported from Jhe Dominion ■β-jfl be graded more in conformity niti tLe standards required by trade at Home .is to length of side, thickness of back fat. etc. With this object in view it i« the intention of the board and the Department tn consult experts and representatives of all interested parties on this important question. At tli" tame time it is also intended to take up the matter of introducing a standard cut and trim for eidw <m<l pork legs. The export of NW Zealand pork has increased in a striking -way in raseni years, as the following figures wDI shoir:

New Zealand porker piss are particDlarly well thought oi on SmithfieJd market, in fact in the opinion of the trade there is no better qnaiity coming to that market. With the increase in Xcw Zealand production of baconer pic*. b;:rers at Home, some of whom are larjie users of our product, are beeominjr nmre discriminating and the hoard is of opinion that the time han arrived for placing ihe srading of ha< oner carcases no a better footing. It is e.«entiai that Kew Zealand «henJd >et about reducing the present disparity in price of bacon made from Xew Zealand piss and that of Danish bacon. When the cradinc of Xow Zealand pork for rspoit <ru fi:st introduced it wai :etomi>e.l that ilie standard would require to be pradually tightened up a» the producer* became educated Jo tie claw of carcase which was required Ij , the trade. The new standards of will provide for definite meas-irements as to lensrth of side and thickness oi back fit, ami it i* tl)e intention that tiie«-e roeatin*nients will eraduallr he placed on a. rtiß liicln r st.ind.ii.i as the educational work .-preads.

KILLINGS FOR EXPORT. Porkers. Baeouen. Season. Carra=f«. Carcases. 1O2.V2« 2S.S13 21.1M 1926-27 4.Y147 23.4*6 l»27--« 118r,.-il 23.<O0 1928-29 u.-j.nar. 43.301 1023 30 O4.4«4 Sa.157 1V30-31 nn.f*:; 22^08 1031-32 ->2 337 1032-33 26«;.6]C 53]364 1933 34 361.4SO 103.1S1 1934-3.*! -i 30 f<7.1 137^34 1935-36 409.S71 213 «90