Pig Meat Prices
Sir, —‘I happened to be in Pahiatua last Wednesday and with a farmer friend went to hear Mr. Bankes Amery speak on “The Feeding of Britain.” I understood him to say that in Britain the farmers put their baconers up to 2001 b. and over without penalty. Can the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Roberts, or Mr. Bankes Amery or anyone else familiar with the subject tell me through “The Dominion” why the farmers in New Zealand are penalized to the extent of one penny to one penny three farthings a pound if they put their baconers over 175 lb.?—l am, etc., PENPUSHEII. Pahiatua, May ‘5.
[The Marketing Department, to whom a copy ot the above letter was submitted, states that no baconers are being shipped from New Zealand to the United Kingdom as they are all required for the armed forces in the South Pacific area and for domestic consumption. Heavy pigs have always been at a discount in the curing trade in New Zealand-as the public demand is mostly for lean bacon, iinq the United States, forces specification calls for bacon cured from pigs under 1751 b. This is the reason for a price discrimination.)
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 4
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199Pig Meat Prices Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 4
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