PORK AND BACON

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1935, Page 5

PORK AND BACON

NEEDS OF THE BRITISH MARKET. MEAT BOARD CHAIRMAN’S ADVICE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Advice to New Zealand pig farmers is contained in a survey of the pork marketing situation in Britain made by the chairman of the Meat Producers’ Board, Mr. David Jones, who after having spent six months at London returned to Wellington to-day by the Rangitane. Britain had carried out her promise to give the Dominion an expanding share of the pork and bacon trade, he said. New Zealand’s increased exports of pork below 1001 b. in weight had been rapid. New Zealand could not afford to overload this market, and the quota had been an advantage to the Dominion in this respect. Frozen pork and bacon weights were on a different footing. The consumption of bacon in Britain was enormous and no treaties barred the way. Porker pigs, he said, had been coming forward in embarrassing numbers, and it was clear that a policy would have to be laid down ensuring that a proper proportion of porker and baconer pigs would be fattened to carry out obligations to the British Government. Mr. Jones emphasised the fact so that the fattener might lay out his plans to meet a situation fairly certain to develop.