NEW ZEALAND PORK IN BRITAIN
ADVANTAGES OVER BACON A recommendation that New Zealand producers should concentrate upon production of pork for the British market rather than bacon is made by Dr John Hammond, of Cambridge University, in his report to the New Zealand Government. “It is possible that if the type of pig is changed the quality of New Zealand pork will be jeopardized,” the report states. “In my opinion, it would be better, for New Zealand to concentrate on the pork market because “(a) New Zealand pork is the best of the imported pork on the London market.
“(b) New Zealand has no serious competitors for pork, but many for bacon on the London market. “(c) The frozen-small-pork trade is capable of development outside the London area in much the same way as the lamb trade has developed. “(d) It is much easier for the production end to concentrate on one product (as Denmark has done with bacon) than two. Interactions between pork and bacon in Britain are causing much trouble to producers. “(e) If at any time quotas in Britain are abandoned (or increased), New Zealand will meet much more severe competition in bacon than in pork, especially from countries such as Denmark, which has a very well organized scientific production. “(f) As New Zealand has much dairy and freezing-works by-products (protein) and but little grain (carbohydrate) for pig-feeding, the pork pig, which utilizes proteins to better advantage than the bacon pig, would seem to offer the best commercial utilization of the by-products available for pig-feeding in New Zealand. “(g) There is little or no fear that pork will compete with home-fed pork or imported lamb in Britain for, as surveys of family budgets in different wage-earning classes show, those with the highest income consume most lamb, those with the next highest income consume most pork and mutton, those with the next highest income consume most pork and beef, and those with the lowest income consume most beef.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23544, 25 June 1938, Page 19
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