QUOTAS ON MEAT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 2

QUOTAS ON MEAT

EXPORT OF PORKER PIGS

RESTRICTION TftSTRFr TIONS-

Instructions that all porker pigs killed after January 1 must not ! !>e shipped to Great Britain to arrive liefore March ;!1 have been issued to the meat export trade by the New 'Zealand .Meat Producers' Board. This decision implements in the ease of porkers the voluntary restrictions on shipments of meat to arrive in Great Britain during the first quarter of of 103*1. No arrangements have been notified by the board with regard to •beef or lamb and million, which confirms the belief' thai only porkers are likely to be adversely affected by the restrictions.

It is not difficult to see the basis for the board's decision, which means practically thai arrivals in Great Britain during January-March, 1935, are to be confined to stocks held in New Zealand this.month and to killings

for export during the month. Killings of porker pigs in Ww Zealand from December' 1- to 15 amounted in; about 20,000 carcases, and at this rate the; killings for the whole month should lie about ."'2.000 carcases. Stocks of porkers in .-lore at November 30 and on vessels not departed from the Dominion at November .10 were about 41,000 en reuses, making a total of 93,000 carcases. Based on an average weight of 901bV, this is equal- to* 3737 tons, and the agreed limit is' 3750 tons.

Killings of porker pigs in New Zealand this season, beginning October 1 tc> December 15; amounted to 123,000 carcases, compared with 73,000 carcases for the' same period last year, an increase of 70 per cent. The restriction amounts to the holding of all killings in January and February, 1935. less what would normally be' held in store. Assuming, the rate of increase, 70 per cent., is' maintained';, the total killings for export in these i»wo month's" would be about 150.000 carcases. Taking stored stocks at HO.OOO carcases, the balance, 100,000 carcases, or 4000 tons, represents the extent of restriction. As it is impossible to say what effect the restriction will have on the demand for export, the figures quoted can hardly be taken as authoritative. However, i hey make it clear that if the three months' restriction is the forerunner of anything, more'lasting,there is the need "for pig producers to concentrate on haconors, in which the quota limit is much less stringent.— Auckland Herald, . '