PIG MARKETING.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18723, 25 August 1932, Page 8

PIG MARKETING.

FEDERATION’S INTENTIONS. FUSION OF INTERESTS URGED. The necessity for a fusion of interests between the Dominion Cooperative Farm Products Federation and the New Zealand Go-operative Pig Marketing Association was emphasised by Mr S. C. G. Lye, managing director of the Waikato and Thames Valley Calf By-Products Company, conversing with a Waikato Times reporter to-day. •Mr Lye pointed out that the Federation consisted of representatives from the South Island Dairy Association, the National Dairy Association, the Patea Farmers’ Freezing Company and the Waikato and Thames Valley Calf Company. lie stated that at a meeting in Wellington yesterday the Federation considered the question of handling all classes of pigs for export. The Federation, he added, had been re-quested to form a marketing organisation by various districts in the Dominion. Hitherto it had not been considered wise to interfere with the operations of the pig marketing association. Bobby Calf Skins. “There is a distinctly brighter tone regarding the selling prospects for bobby calf skins in the Northern Hemisphere,” said Mr Lye. “Although nothing definite has been arranged, keen interest Is being displayed by buyers, especially in England. It is important to note, however, that English buyers refuse to take risks where skins are scratched as a result of calves being tied to barbed-wire fences." “ FUSION UNLIKELY. ASSOCIATION’S ATTITUDE. The secretary of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, Limited (Mr G. F. Saunders) when approached by a Times representative to-day said that he had no knowledge of I lie question of marketing pigs for export having been considered by Ihc Dominion Co-operative Farm Products Federation, Limited. No suggestions had been received from j that, or any other organisation regarding a fusion of interests. The Pig j Marketing Association had recently re- | ceived representations from the Nort'h- [ ern Wairoa, Gisborne, Manawatu, and | Wanganui Districts to extend the opI orations of the association for Ihc I benefit of pig producers in lliosc districts. | lie did not think his directors would | favourably consider any suggestion of ! a fusion with other interests, as far as pigs were concerned, but the direc- ! tors had considered, and submitted I representations to a bobby calf eon- ! corn, with the object of having one ; efilelent collecting organsation, eollect- | ing both pigs and calves.