PIG INDUSTRY.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 8

PIG INDUSTRY.

GRADING AT WORKS. FARMERS DISAPPROVE SCHEME. (Special Reporter). AUCKLAND, Friday. “While we greatly appreciate the decision of the Government to Institute an ■official system of grading pigs sold on hooks we consider that it should grade all pigs killed at any abattoir or freezing works.” • This was the text of a remit lost on the voices at the Auckland Proa Inclal conference of the Farmers’ Union to-day. Moving the remit Mr W. H. Ahcn (Tirau) said it was necessary to build up the export business. All pigs should be graded on proper lines at the abattoirs. Opposing the proposal, Mr S. C. Barron (Tauranga) said, while the trade would welcome such a measure It had to be remembered that nearly all the pigs killed were handled by proprietary concerns. The remit was premature. Second grade pigs were cured and sold as llrst-class baton, the farmer losing the difference between first and second grades. Only a fraction of pigs produced went through 00-operatlve channels and the speaker considered the effeot of the remit would be detrimental to the farmer.

Bounty on Exports.

A remit from Rotorua sub-province was passed as follow's: — “That a levy shall be placed on nil pigs slaughtered In the Dominion to provide a bounty on all bacon and pork exported, the levy to be sufficient to provide the difference between the net prices obtainable on the local and export markets."