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(Published by Arrangement.) BILVN AND POLLARD AND THE PIG INDUSTRY. \\ LaL would prove a deadly boomerang for t,l « pig industry is being blindly advocated in certain quarters in the "form Ol (110 removal of wheat duties. UiuW present conditions with the wheat industry stabilised local supplies ol bran and pollard are assured. It is common knowledge that the removal of duties would bring about a rapid declino of the Dominion's wheat industry, and, therefore, the buyers of offals would be dependent upon other countries and would inevitably cxperienco periods when bran and pollard would soar to high prices and occasionally be jnobtainable. ITiis is simply beeausu (lour would be imported instead of wheat. Australia, for instance, has very little surplus bran and pollard and prefers to export flour than wheat. It is doubly certain that (lour would bo imported instead of wheat because experience has shown that it is cheaper to import flour than to import wheat to be milled in New Zealand. Those in the pig industry who have an eye to the future and are aware of past . experiences of outsido buying, will certainly not. lend support to any movement calculated to place the wheat and flour supplies of New Zealand into the hands of the importers, leaving thoso requiring bran and pollard with no guaranteed source of supplies.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20623, 23 July 1930, Page 14

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Page 14 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20623, 23 July 1930, Page 14

Page 14 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20623, 23 July 1930, Page 14