BACON TRADE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 December 1931, Page 6

BACON TRADE

VALUABLE OPENING FOR EXP.ORT MARKET DEVELOPMENT. "PIGS WILL REPLACE BUTTER." "I am firmly convmeed that the apathy of New Zealand towards the pig indusfcry is the cause of the loss of a valuable market to the Dominion," said Mr. H. D. Oaro, of Hamilton, says the Waikato Times. Mr. Caro has just returned from a business trip to England. j "Denm'ark exports over £1,000,000 | worth of pigs a week to England mostly as bacon. The value of Britain's imports in a year is £150,000,000. If only we could capture onetenth of the trade it would mean £15,000,000 to us. What is demanded, and what we need to breed, is a cross between a large white Berkshire with a middle white one for bacon. Black pigs are not favoured. "I am quite satisfied that our future is more in pigs than in butter. Pigs will save New Zealand. "England imports £21,000,000 worth of eggs annually, more than half of which comes from Denmark while £300,000 worth come from Australia. The average price is 16s 9d a great hundred (120) or ls 8d a dozen. Surely this should pay us at the peak of the season? "A great trouble with New Zealand produce, however, is its lack of uniformity," concluded Mr. Caro. } "In one bacon factory I saw 1000 \ pig carcases from Denmark and it was j impossible to pick one from the other. j To compete successfully we will have \ to rectify our somewhat casual me- j thods. j