DISTRICT PIG COUNCIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19397, 7 August 1937, Page 2

DISTRICT PIG COUNCIL

EASTERN AREA CONTROL PROVISNONAL EXECUTIVE GISBORNE BODY APPROVED An executive to act provisionally as the district pig council to control the Bay of Plenty. Poverty Bay and East Coast district development of the pig industry was set up at a meeting held in Whakatane on Wednesday. The area to be controlled by the district pig council will be the counties of Tauranga, Rotorua. Taupo, Whakatane, Opotiki, Matakaoa, Waiapu, Uawa, Waikohu, Cook and Wairoa. „ .. Representatives from all these districts were present, Mr.. M. J. Scott, superintendent of the pig industry, explaining at some length the necessity for an executive to control and administer the allocation of £BOO from the 2d per pig levy to provide instructional services to all concerned in the pig industry. Executive Elected ■ All the representatives present were elected to the district council, and the following were elected a provisional executive with headquarters m Whakatane: Messrs. D. S. Ross, Te Puke R. W. Strugnell, Tauranga, J. Jamieson, Whakatane, S. M. Jcphson, Opotiki, Norman Carter, Whakatane, ’j. Petersen, Whakatane, and W. E. Bowen, To Puke. A motion was passed also approving of the sub-council established in Gisborne. . , .. The duties of the district council would consist in the first place in organising the industry, providing testing stations, and the formation of pig clubs, the district councils being incorporated bodies. These councils would be representative of pig club members, pig breeders, departmental officers, and any coopted member that the council desired. Every pig club formed would be entitled to a representative on the district council, so tb&t the more clubs that were formed the greater would >be the success of the scheme. Gisborne Activity Mr. Scott in his address urged enthusiastic support for the movement, commenting favourably on the healthy progress made m the formation of clubs in the Gisborne Wairoa and East Coast districts as the result of activity on the part of the membet!of the Gisborne Pig Club, who had endeavoured to comply with every request received on the part ot those desirous of information concerning the pig club movement. No clubs were actually in existence in the Bay of Plenty portion of the suggested district, it was pointed out but judging by the interest displayed at the meeting the formation of clubs would take place immediately. Figs killed last season in the five counties, apart from Poverty Bay and East Coast, totalled 87,000.