PORK AND BACON

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 4

PORK AND BACON

RJiJAIL MARKET SHORTAGE. Reports go to show that there is an acute shortage of pork and bacon on, the retail market just now. A leading, locaj representative engaged in th-* line m discussing the position with, a Waikato liu.es representative agreed with the opinion of bacon-curersT that the situation was in a, measure due to farmers turning their attention to the dried milk .industry, which is now offeriner financial returns to the farmer never previously existing, and depleting the by-product of the dairy industry Vhich wa s availaole'in the past for pig-ra: s-

Howpver, the curer in question holds that there exists a further avenue wj?ich has equally as far-reaching an eftect in placing pork and bacon a supply standard which can by no means gratify the home demand. This w-is by the trade dor* with the Islands, towhich constant supplies were Operations to meet the requirements oi that direction were going on on a bfg scale, and prices were l>efng offered against which the curer could not compete ami show a safe margin of profit .Our informant was emphaticaly of th.> «P"»on_that there were more* pigs in rht Waiicato than ever before but the i act was that the seller naturally went to the highest market with his produce