PORK EXPORTERS PLEASED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 8

PORK EXPORTERS PLEASED.

ENCOUEAGING OUTLOOK. ' From time to time during the last few months thu dispatch of small experimental shipments of .irozen pork and fcacon to London has been.recorded. Adyice has now been received as to the remits of the first two shipments made ■n-om Wellington, and both have gone oft very well. Mr; J. ii. MocEwan, discuss'to? the result with a Bomnion reprc; aentativo yesterday, s.iid farmers neon have no hesitation in making their plans for pig farming on a ppimanent, oasis, for just so soon as the local market was over-supplied it could bo relieved by export to Great Britain.' The pig industry in Now Zealand was going through just the same experience as other mriiisItries when the local markets hail been glutted. Hβ did.not see -why, with the necessary care and attention, a very satisfactory export, trade should not be opened up. That had teen his opinion for fifteen years past. It was essential, however, it- anything extensive was to be dono that farmers should iced and breed better. . Tho • market; was exceedinriy favourable, and promisod well, llis firm was feeling its way cautiously, for with' these experiments- one could uevir iell when a turn in the road might not Dome. Hr.' MacEwan remarked that he had' just had advice from; Liverpool as to the recent'.rejection of the 6000 cartasses of Chinese - pork,, and. tho subsequent conversion of tho pork into bacon on the Isle of Mali. ;'.His correspondent stated that the prejudice' against. pork Irom China' was almost insuperable. -