FARMING AFFAIRS
RETAIL SALE OF PIG MEATS To a request from Federated Farmers that the sale of pork within New Zealand should be prohibited and that bacon and ham should be rationed for local consumption the Minister of Supply doubts that such an action would result in a greater quantity of pig meats being shipped to Britain. The consumption of pork for 1947 was 4505 tons in the North Island and 961 tons in the South Island, a total of 4.5 per cent, of meat consumed. With the basic weekly coupon value at Is lid, the consumer, said the Minister, was entitled to buy either 3.031bs of beef (carcass weight), low coupon value, or 1.771bs of pork high coupon value. It was obvious, therefore, that should the consumer be deprived of pork, he would consume more beef and mutton and so defeat the objective of maintaining New Zealand’s exportable surplus. Bacon and ham was already rationed for, since 1943, a quota system had applied to all bacon curers who were permitted under license to cure only a specified number of carcases for distribution in the retail trade.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 50, 19 May 1948, Page 1
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187FARMING AFFAIRS Lake County Mail, Issue 50, 19 May 1948, Page 1
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