PIG EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 132, 7 June 1933, Page 3

PIG EXPORT TRADE

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

CURING BACON IN BRITAIN

The prospects for the profitable development of the pork industry in this Dominion have never been brighter than they are today, said Mr. Wendell Phillips, chairman of directors of the Nes\r Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, in an interview today. It was evident, he said, that the British Government was determined to, protect by restriction of foreign imports the'pig and other primary producers on the Home market, and provided that the New Zealand Government took the necessary steps to ensure the free and unrestricted entry of our primary products, the outlook for. the pig trade was most promising. ' His. company had recently signed a contract with their "marketing agents, who were about to establish a factory in the United Kingdom -to dure his company's exports of frozen pigs, thus obtaining for producers in New Zealand the benefits _of | the British consumers' trade. It was in- | teresting to, note that whilst the c.i.f. market for fimen baconers, since the inception of the restrictions imposed by the British Government on foreign bacon imports, had only increased by %d per lb, the wholesale price of Danish bacon had, during the same period, increased from 52s to 75s per cwt. A further interesting and significant observation on the perfection of the Danish co-operative selling organisation in the United Kingdom, said Mr. Phillips, was the fact that whilst the British Government reduced imports of Danish bacon by 20 per cent, on last year's figures, the price of their product had risen by 42 per cent, since November. New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, Mr. Phillips stated, was the only co-operative organisation whose operations embraced the whole of the North Island. After a turnover last year of 21,000 pigs, the association's exports for the current year would exceed 75,000 pigs, with a sterling turnover of over £175,000. ■ '. : Practically the whole of the company's product this year has been sold on consignment through one concern, thus avoid' ing competition amongst brokers. It was generally conceded, he said, that co-opera-tive effort in New Zealand, both in respect of the 'production and manufacture of farmers' products, had reached a standard second to none in the world. Unfortu-, nately much of the benefits therefrom were lost in the multiplicity of channels, all virtually in competition with one another, through which these products are sold on the world's markets. Mr. Phillips also mentioned that the export operations of his company were being extended this year to include bobby veal. This trade commences with the closing of the normal pig season in New Zealand on May 31.