N.Z. BACONER PIGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1945, Page 6

N.Z. BACONER PIGS

DISPLAY IN LONDON (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) LONDON, October 5; “We were very surprised at the quality of these carcases, which were even in advance of New Zealand’s pre-war standard,” was' the verdict of the judges at the exhibition of prize-winning entries of New Zealand baconer pigs from W. and R. Fletcher’s Tomoana competition. The exhibition was held at Union Cold Storage Company’s store at Nelson’s wharf, London. “We had expected that the standard would have fallen off during the war years,, as has happened in England,” the judges added, “but this is an extremely good -lot of pigs.” The judges were Mr J. B. S. Swain, Mr H. R. Davidson, and Dr. John Hammond, who developed the Smithfield standard of judging, from which the Dominion standard has been evolved. The caressed, which recently reached England by the steamer Suffolk, came from North Auckland, Auckland, the Waikato, Tairawhiti, the Bay of Plenty, and Wellington. “On the whole, except for a minor point, New Zealand standard judging has been on similar lines to ours,” stated the judges. “The display shows that the Dominion is selecting the right sort of pigs for the British market.” Comments by importers and other members of the trade at the exhibition reflected credit on the great effort made by New Zealand during the war to maintain and improve the standards of export carcases. This year’s Tomoana competition was the first based strictly on. standards to ensure uniformity of judging, which were recently laid down by the Department of Agriculture, and the main object of the-display, arranged through the New Zealand Marketing Division and the Ministry of Food, was to enable the trade here to give an opinion on the suitability .of tne standard for the British The judges carefully checked each carcase, and although a comparison of their points with those given in Ney/ Zealand is not yet available, it is. evident that there is no wide variance between the two judging standards. The New Zealand Meat Board was represented at the display by Mr S. A. Chisholm, recently appointed manager, and Mr W. S. McClumpha. TRANSPORT "OF MEAT LONDON, Otober 5. Consideration is at present being riven in London to the removal. oi emergency methods for the refrigerated sea transport of meat, chiefly the telescoping of carcases and deboning. Any immediate change is regarded as unlikely. The need for the conservation oi shipping space still remains a dominant factor, as Britain still requires all the available food and cargo capacity. The telescoping of carcases, which has not been entirely appreciated by butchers here, will be the subject of a general discussion in November by various parties, including representatives of the New Zealand Meat Board. The question of the future of deboned meat is not lively to reach the discussion stage before early in next year.