PROSPECTS BRIGHT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 14

PROSPECTS BRIGHT

Prices for “Bobby Calves” REVIEW BY CHAIRMAN Dominion Special Service. Hawera, June 12. That the prices for bobby calves would be mufh better in the coming season than they were last year was the prediction of Mr. C. D. Dickie, chairman of the Patea Freezing Company, in an address to members of the Okaiawa Farmers’ Union. He said that this season the prospects were much brighter. Skins were three times the value, and there was a better demand for veal. Speaking of the low returns last year, Mr. Dickie pointed out that there was a drop of 2d per lb in the price of veal due to a fall in pork and bacon, with which veal was largely used. There was also a substantial fall in the price of skins. America was off the market, already having large quantities on hand. The skins were made' into gelatine m order to get them off the market so as to avoid deterioration. Australia took a large proportion of last year’s skins. The low price of offal was another cause of low returns. Last year about 400,000 bobby calves had been killed in New Zealand, and no matter how much veal was exported there appeared to be a market for it. He considered that when the world made a recovery they might get up to 12/- or 10/for bobby vealers. At the present time the prospects looked hopeful. Hides and skins had risen to a remarkable degree, lamb pelts formerly 'worth7d now being in the vicinity of 21d. Hides were now up to 7d a lb. That must improve the calf skin market