MARKETING OF PIGS

Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3384, 24 October 1933, Page 4

MARKETING OF PIGS

CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY. EXPORTING ARRANGEMENTS. A new company has been formed for the marketing of pi£s, this being the Kiwi Co-operative Bacon Co.; Ltd., Shares in the new company are held as follows: New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., £10,000; Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., £10,000; Picot Brothers, Ltd., Palmerston North, £10,000; New Zealand Pig Marketing Association, Ltd., £6000; total £36,000. Discussing the formation of the new company,. Mr A. Wendell Phillips, chairman of directors of the Pig Marketing Association, said the main Object of his concern’s association with the enterprise was to secure for its suppliers a permanent and competitive local outlet for its bacon pigs. In the past the association had had to rely almost entirely on the export market for the disposal of its pigs, which last season numbered 80,000 carcases. Through Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., its export agents, the New Zealand Pig Marketing Association, Ltd., had recently established a curing factory in England to deal with its-frozen exports. This arrangement; together with the local outlet now provided by the formation of the new co-operative company, consolidated its export marketing arrangements. "• ! • The Pig Marketing Association’s operations now extended over both is.ands, said Mr Phillips. It was first established in the Auckland province, and among its oldest supporters were suppliers of the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy 'Co., Ltd. In the interests, of these suppliers, and in the interests of the farming community in general, the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Company had given financial assistance in the promotion of the new bacon company, which would be conducted by Mr F. R. Picot as managirfg director, and Mr A. H. Honeyfield as general manager. Mr Dynes Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-opi Dairy Co., Ltd., and a director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., said the producers, through the Pig Marketing Association, would supply the raw material, Amalgamated Dairies would supervise the marketing arrangements the new bacon company would deal with the local market outlets hitherto provided by the Kiwi Bacon Co., Ltd. A complete chain from production to bacon curing and sales either in New Zealand or in England would thus be provided by the new concern.

Mr Fulton said that the directors of the Dairy Company, in becoming associated with the new movement, were adhering to their expressed policy of assisting dairy farmers to build up and co-operatively control an industry which was an integral part of dairying operations. It was the directors' considered opinion that the latest development would to be of material assistance to suppliers of the dairy company.