EXPORT OF PORK

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3189, 31 January 1928, Page 8

EXPORT OF PORK

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Hawken) has issued the following statement in regard to the recent announcement by the Prime Minister that the Government had decided to give financial assistance towards the export of pork during the present and the next two seasons:—

It was the desire of the Government that the producer should actually receive the bonus direct, but this would involve a complicated method of \ administration and expense which would not be warranted. It has now been decided that the most practical and satisfactory way of handling the matter is to grant a refund of one halfpenny per pound weight on the overseas freight on all pigs weighing from 601b to 1301b, exported to Great Bri tain or other countries in Europe. The refund will apply only to pigs killed from February Ist to October 31st next, and afterwards exported to Europe. Payments will be made to exporters after receipt of monthly claims showing the number of pigs exported, and the weights, each claim to, be supported by a statutory declaration that all the pigs covered by it were slaughtered not earlier than February 1,1928, and were exported to Europe, and were within the weights specified. This arrangement will, as already mentioned, apply only until October 31st next.