PORK AND BACON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17032, 4 May 1923, Page 9

PORK AND BACON.

PROSPECTS OF EXPORT TRADE. (Per I’rw* Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH. May 3. Mr J. S. Jessep, vice-president of tli ; Meat Control Board, advised the Dairv Farmers’ Union Conference to-day that, while investigating the meat market m I oudon on behalf of the board, lie had found that there was a good market for pork and bacon, and agents told him that there was a prospect of developing the pork market. Pork weighed heavier than beef, and he had managed to get freights reduced from l|d, plus 2$ per cent, to Id. and he was confident that this would he further reducted. He thought there would Vie a good demand for bacon if the light breed i-f pigs were used and they were export ed to Britain at the right time, from September to the end of April. New Zealand was up against Denmark, which exported -30.000 tons of bacon :n one month, while Argentine and other countries had a large, well organised trade. On the other hand. New Zea land's climatic conditions were second to none, and she had skim milk and green feed in plenty. As regards weight of animals for ex port, pork of (501 b to 701 b or 801 b at the outside, and bacon of 1201 b to 1801 b or 1901 b at the outside, was in demand. The speaker stressed the fact that pigs should not be too fat, a frequent fault o c New Zealand pigs. It would be agreed that our export trade could not be built up in a day. but he believed that within the next rear there would be a big increase. Unless the right thing was done, there would soon be too few pigs in the There was only one way of bringing down the heavy load of taxation, and that wasljv increasing exports. It was possible to do this by increasing the ox port of pigs within the. next few years by three or four millions.