EXPORT OF PORK

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1935, Page 16

EXPORT OF PORK

TWO AIDS TO THE INDUSTRY. OTTAWA PLAN AND EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Livereargill, Nov. 22. Speaking at Otautau last evening Mr. Adam Hamilton commented on the tremendous increase in the export of porkers and baconers from New Zealand, and said that there were two factors which were responsible for this. The correspondence that took place at Ottawa between Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. J. G. Coates clearly set out that imports of pork and bacon from foreign countries into Great Britain would be limited and that an increasing share of that trade would be given to New Zealand. The Danes had been heavily restricted in their exports to Britain and only recently they made a mass demonstratio.i of protest before the Danish Royal Palace.

The second factor was increased exchange. Without exchange, and even with a favourable Ottawa agreement, it would not pay to export pork from New Zealand. It was incontrovertible that the increase in the export of pork from New Zealand was due in almost equal measure to Ottawa and to exchange. It was unnecessary for him to comment on the value of the pig industry to the dairy farmer. It was a very lucrative sideline with many of them, as would be evident from the export figures of 1931-32 (£246,060) and 1934-35 (£1,313,500).