EXPORT OF PORK

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 18

EXPORT OF PORK

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Nov. 22. Speaking at Otautau this evening, the Hon. A. Hamilton commented on the tremendous increase in the export of porkers and baconers from New Zealand and said that there were two factors which were responsible for this. The correspondence that took place at Ottawa between Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Coates clearly set out that imports of pork and bacon from foreign countries into Great Britain would be limited and that an increasing share of that trade would be given to New Zealand. The Danes had been heavily restricted in their exports to the Old Country, and only recently they made a mass demonstration of protest before the Danish Royal Palace. The second factor was the increased exchange. Without exchange and even with a favourable Ottawa Agreement it would not pay to export pork from New Zealand. It was an incontrovertible fact that the increase of the export of pork from New Zealand was due in almost equal measure to Ottawa and to the exchange. It was unnecessary for him to comment i on the value of the pig industry to the dairy farmer. It was a very lucrative sideline with many of them, as would be evident from the export figures of 1931-32 (£246,000) and 1934-35 (£1,313,500).