TWO SILVER PIGS ON A SILVER TRAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19783, 26 April 1934, Page 12

TWO SILVER PIGS ON A SILVER TRAY

Mr ELLIOT’S COMMENT ON A WEDDING GIFT Mr Walter Elliot, the Minister of Agriculture, and the originator of the Pig Marketing Scheme, whose marriage to Miss Katherine Tennant took place at North Berwick at Easter, received an unexpected and amusing wedding present. He does not know who are the donors except that they are members of the Provision Trade Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, and that they prefer to remain anonymous. The gift was handed to Mr Elliot when he arrived at the Holborn Restaurant, where he was the guest at luncheon of members of the Chamber, and it consisted of two little silver pigs on a silver tray. The pigs were inscribed respectively "Quota One” and “Quota Two.” An accompanying card bore the legend: “Marriage was ever a gamble, but the donors hope that a grunt of perfect contentment will ensue.” A second card was inscribed: “To the Right Hon. Walter Elliot, who made two pigs grow where one grew before.” “Sometimes," Mr Eliot commented after he read this, “I have been called a restrictionlst. Well, this does not look like it.”