PIG PRODUCERS MEET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 279, 24 October 1940, Page 8

PIG PRODUCERS MEET.

FEILDING COUNCIL.. Pig producing interests in the Feilding district were well represented at the annual meeting, last night, of the district council of the New Zealand Pig Marketing Association, Mr R. C. Hamilton presiding ill the absence of the chairman (Mr H. V. Benge) through illness. The chairman welcomed to the meeting Messrs W. A. Phillipps (chairman of directors of the association) and N. A. Hastings (Dominion organiser). In the course of a review of the past season's operations, Mr Hastings gave an interesting outline of the history of the Pig Marketing Association from its birth in 1927 and its reorganisation in 1932, since when it has grown from a small concern handling about 54,000 pigs to the huge business it is to-day with an annual turnover of approximately £l,000.000. He emphasised that this increase could not have been brought about without the support and loyalty of those farmers concerned. Every year in its history had seen the steady expansion of the association's balancesheet and a 6 it was a purely co-opera-tive organisation, conducted on identical lines to those of dairy companies, this meant that more and more farmers reaped more profits from the industry that was their own. The extension of the association's activities to the boneless veal industry had been a case in point where the experience gained in the pig industry had been put to telling effect and to-day the farmers in the pool areas were obtaining every penny of profit, lees the costs entailed, from the production and sale of their calves. Mr Hastings appealed to the farmers to use all their influence to still further extend the co-operative movement. Mr Phillips gave a review of the business operations of the association, endorsing the remarks of the previous speaker in regard to the growth of the association being the direct result of loyalty and support from the farmers. The future, said Mr Phillips, called for no less an effort if the farmer was to permanently secure for himself the profits that were rightly Jii6 and the nationalisation of the effort through the Dominion-wide ramifications of the association was the sole means of obtaining this result. Many questions wore asked and answered in connection with the pig and calf industrv.