EXPORT PORK TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 2

EXPORT PORK TRADE

READY MARKET AT HOME GOOD POSSIBILITIES Although during the last decari. New Zealand producer has av-tv to the fact that Kngland offers , 2? e<l market for this Dominion’s pork products, little has as vet vf 0 * done to exploit it. 3 1 The total value of New Zealneexport of frozen pork into Great bS I ain during 1926 was £ 258,8->5 2"*senting only about one haif per Prf ' of that country's total pork and t,T‘ ctimportations for the year. One pleasing feature about New 7 land pork export trade, however na' fact that a slight increase is n2t able. but only very trifling pared with the Argentine rieures°?' the last three years. In 1925 NWV or land exported 40,300c\vt. of frozen £? a ' valued at £143.358, and in figures increased to 67,434ewt ' at £258.825 The Home figures X* an overwhelming Preponderance favour of bacon, and it is on the h„ ln trade that New Zealand should centrate per medium of frozen norV ' It is useless for New Zealand to export cured bacon, because it w„J2 land stale and mouldy. The New land Meat Producers’ Board sent frozen pork to several of the bacon-curers in Britain and IreLn! for conversion into bacon. The defrosted the pork and cured it acemS? ing to the tastes of tiie locality Th were unanimous in stating that New Zealand bacon thus cured iS* superior to the best Danish, ao S the idea of converting New ZeaW frozen pork into bacon was quite so.mj What New Zealand had to do to a bigger share in the British bacon ia dustry was to grow more pork of Si right sizes and quality to meet tkl tastes of British consumers. ™ Pig-rearing was commonly rpcatAs as a national side-line to dairying Vm. if taken up more seriously and scienti fically by farmers it was almost ci tain that the side-line would ulq mately pay even better than the im» industry. Argentina evidently recognises that the frozen pork trade in'Great Britan, Is worth striving for, as is shown hr the following figures. In ISM sh ; exported 1.445 cwt. at a value of £4 91s In 1925 7.318 cwt. valued at £34,83:-'and in 192* S6,os2cwt. valued at £37L6*i