MARKET FOR FORK.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1923, Page 4

MARKET FOR FORK.

BIG PROSPECTS IX LONDON' .PALMERSTON X.. May it. -Mr ./. S. Jess-op. vice-president of tie* Meal Cunt rid Board, advised the Dairy i'armors’ Union Conference to-day that 11 . eile investigating the meat market in London on behalf of the board lie leid lon lid there was a good market- for pork and bacon. Agents fold him tfrie was a prospect of 'level;.ping the pork market. Pork weighed heavier Omit beef, and he lead managed to gel ireighls reduced Imm the L;d plusTt p-r cent, to Id and was confident tin’s v.n,d! i;e further reduced, fit* thought would. Ijo a good demand fur ’onion if the right breed of pigs were us-ed.-ami they r.ere exported to Britain at the right- time, which vras September to the end of April. PRESENT COMPETITION. New Zealand would he up agninsL Denmark. which country exported •f'-b’.i ) tons of bat-on in one month, wID Io the Argentine and other countries bad a Jnrce and well organised trade. On the other hand. New Zealand s cLt.oaMe conditions were second to none, and she had skim milk m.d green feed in plenty. As regards the weight of animals for export, n irk -af Chills to "(fills or UOlbs at the i-iii;* ’tie. and bacon of I’JfHbs to ISOIbs or BlOlbs at t!ie outside, was in demand. The speaker stressed the fact, that pigs should not be too fat. which was a frequent fault in New Zealand pins. ONLY WAY TO ItEDt'CE TAXATION. It would be agreed that cur export trade, he said, could not be bu’lt up in a day, but be believed that vitliin tile next year there would be t beg ini reuse, but unless the right thing wasdone there would soon lie too few pips in the country. There was only one way of bringing flown the heave km!

of taxation, and that was b-y itu-rea. n.*> the exports, and it was possible to do this by increasing the export of pigs within the next few years by three or four millions.