THE PORK INDUSTRY

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3467, 17 May 1934, Page 5

THE PORK INDUSTRY

MEAT BOARD’S INTEREST. LECTURE TOUR PLANNED. More diversified production has been one of the methods suggested for overcoming the difficulties of the dairying industry in the Dominion, and this has been an ideal receiving practical support from the Meat Producers’ Board for many years. Through the financial help given by the board, two successful pig recording clubs operate in the Waikato and the Manawatu, and it has just been decided by the board to undertake the financial responsibility of a lecture and demonstration tour cf dairyfarming districts by Mr E. E. Hale, chairman of the Waikato Pig Recording- Club, according to advices from Wellington. Mr Hale is an enthusiastic advocate of improved methods of pig management, with the object of raising pork for export, and his fai’m is well known as an objectlesson in the success of the methods advocated by the pig- recording clubs. These two organisations, workingin areas wide apart, furnish information gained under different climatic conditions, and Mr Hale’s lecture tourwill enable farmers in all parts of the country to profit by the experience of the clubs. The Department of Agriculture is actively co-operating in the movement, and its field officers are making all the advance arrangements for the lectures, which will be on the subject of “ Correct Pig Management.” Denmark, New Zealand’s greatest rival in dairying, has developed the pork industry side by side with its dairying-, until to-day her exports of pork products exceed those of butter both in volume and value. In its shipping freight contracts, the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board early recognised that the export of pork wrs an industry which should be helped, and it arranged for a specially low rate of freight on pork shipped to England. When the last adjustment of overseas freights took place, a further reduction resulted in a rate which, compared with that prevailing when the board was constituted, represents a reduction of 9s Bd_per 1201 b carcase or 58 per cent less than the freight rate of 1922. Pork production in association with dairying adds appreciably to the but-ter-fat return.