PIG MEAT PRICES
PRODUCERS DISSATISFIED (P.A.) DUNEDIN, this day. A meeting of pig raisers decided to inform the Government that the price fixed for pig meat was so far below production costs that producers would have to go out of business. It suggested the continuation of open market sales with prices on the hooks of bacon pigs up to 1801b, 9d lb, porkers 10Jd and choppers 4d. It was stated by Mr. G. Masters that the reduction of price from 9d to Sd was robbing the producer to spoon-fed the butcher or bacon cure:-. The farmer was receiving 1/6 for bacon and the Government's policy was to drive all pigs to the curers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 123, 26 May 1943, Page 4
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