THE PORK INDUSTRY
The following reference to the pork and bacon industry is made- in the sixth annual report'of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board for the year ended dune 30, 1923. '.. "It is satisfactory to note the substantial increase in the export of p.h k from tlie Dominion to the "United Kingdom this season. Funu Ist..Oct oher'lOST. to 30th. JiWe 1925, we have killed for export J 18,55.0 porkers and 27,485 baconers,, as against 50,502 porkeis and 35.124 baconers killed to the same date in the previous year. It will.be noted that we are now expoiting consider?) bly more poikers than baconers. Tho Boaid's London .oilice has been for some time endeavouring to get a wider distiibntion for these porkers through the Smithueld Market by advertising to the trade to help in this diiection. .
In support of the Government in its efforts to help the export of poik, the Board, in its shipping freight contracts, has always recognised', that "this" was an exuort"iudustiy that must be helped, and since its inception has specially airanged with the Shipping Companies for a low shipping fieight rate ,en poik, so that to-day, the rate on pork is reduced to about half of what it was in 1922, and the saving.on a 1301 b. pig would amount to 9s 3d. which is equal to 3d per.lb. These figures speak; for themselves, and the special concession made in regard to the shipping freight rates, on pork may be looked upon as practically a subsidy obtained by the Board to encourage this industry. In the 'diiection of helping in the marketing of poikers exported to the United Kingdom, and in ' accordance with the wishes of the trade, the Board decided to institute giadc weights for poikers expoited. this season. .As already mentioned the Board offered special piizes at-the Fourth. Royal Agricultural .Show with a view •to enecnioging vhc breeding cf pigs,-most suitable for export and the type most desired on Smithfichl Maiket. After being judged alive on the Showground, tlie entries in these classes were killed and shipped Home, and the Board s London Office arranged a special display on cmithficld Market which proved a.'valuable advertisement for our New Zealand pork. Amongst other efforts by. the Board to advertise New Zealand pork may be mentioned the insertion of a scries «;f advertisements in journals circulating amongst all 'the retail, butchers' at Home. • ...
It is very pleasing . to note that Fmithlield Market has such a high opinion of our pork, the quality of which it* ..considered superior to tho. pork exported from other paits of the world. This high opinion of our pork is also. shared by Lieutenant-Colonel. T. Dunlop Young, Veterinary Officer of Smith-" field Maiket, who recently visited tftc Dominion.
Like lamb, pork has its seasonable demand; this usually commences about September and lasts until April—reaching its zenith about Christmas. The consumption of pork is less popular in warm weather than in cold, when the tendency to increase the proportion oi' animal fats in the dietary reacts favourably on pork, consumption. The summer months from May to August, are commonly regard "" as a closed season for pork, as is illustrated in Smithfield, where 85 per cent of the total supplies is consumed in the winter months.
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Shannon News, 3 August 1928, Page 4
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