PIG EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 12

PIG EXPORT TRADE

CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING

Mr. W. A. Phillips, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Pig Marketing Association, Ltd., has informed "The Post" that his board has decided to make the usual interim or second payment on pigs handled on consignment to the end of October. This payment would be made on or about the end of November, at the following rates per pound: Exportable porkers, to 801b, Id; 81-120 lb, 3d. Exportable and unexportable baconers, $&; and exportable choppers, £d.

While the total New Zealand export kill, owing to a late spring, to the middle of October, was some 13,000 pigs short of last season's kill for the corresponding period, Mr. Phillips stated that his company had received a satisfactory share of the supply, of which an interesting and pleasing feature was the substantial increase in the baconer percentage, as compared with the position last year. Greatly-increased competition this year for pigs, and other classes of meat, he said, could be mainly attributed to the present firm tone of the export market, which, together with recent restrictive export measures imposed by the Argentine Government, had attracted two large American packing houses with connections in Britain to the possibilities of develotsing trade in New Zealand and Australia. Referring to prospects for a favourable export market for the present season, Mr. Phillips said two factors worthy of mention must have a favourable bearing on the position: One, whereas the U.S.A. and Argentina together had exported last year to the British market over 28.000 tons of frozen and chilled pork, exports from these sources during the present year were unlikely to reach mucji more than one-third of this quantity; and, secondly, it _ was the British Government's intention to substantially increase the foreign quota for bacon, which was I conditional upon these countries agreeing to an import levy of Id per pound. Advice was received last week that these proposals had been abandoned for the present, since reflected in the firming of export values for New Zealand frozen bacon pigs.