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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4727, 21 July 1924, Page 3

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THE HOME MARKET. EXPORT OF PORK. By the last mail the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board received a letter from its London manager in respect to the shipment of pork. An extract from this letter is as follows; •‘While in Bristol a few weeks ago 1 called on Messrs E. Miles and Co., and had a long talk with their managing director, who is largely interested in the niatter of the bacon trade, having several factories in the West of England. The manager of this firm is lona in his praise of the quality of New Zealand frozen pigs, which he lias handled for many years past, but he is very disappointed that he cannot obtain regular supplies all the year round. 1 explained to him that it wan a seasonal trade in New Zealand, but he pointed out that in England pigs were fattened all the year round. He prefers the New Zealand pigs to any other imported pork, and statec. that we are very much ahead of the American, quality. He states that he could take up to 2000 pigs a month all the year round, provided the price was .satisfactory and regular shipments could be obtained, etc. ■‘l also called on the manager of Messrs Spier Bros, and Clarke, also large provision merchants and bacon curers. He, also, expresses himself as particularly pleased with the quality of New Zealand frozen pork, but complained also of the want of regular shipments. He was anxious to get into direct touch with the New Zealand suppliers of pork, and I was able to give him the names of several firms who would be in a position to quote him.” SOUTH AMERICAN SHIPMENTS. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has received a cable from its representative at Buenos Aires, South America, advising the following shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnight ended July 12, 1924, from Argentine and Uruguay: Chilled beef quarters, 237,725 ; frozen beef quarters, 79,562 ; carcases of frozen mutton, 82,032 ; carcases of frozen lamb, ■**-70,591. The quantity shipped to the Continent of Europe during the same period totalled 127,650 quarters of frozen beef and 2150 carcases of frozen mutton.