PORK EXPORTERS SEEK ASSISTANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 26

PORK EXPORTERS SEEK ASSISTANCE

LOSS MADE_LAST YEAH (From Our Own Correspondent.) “Owing to the unfortunate state f the pork industry—the scheme established last year having proved a fa". ure —those suppliers of the factorwho exported through that now being called upon to meet the deficiency,” commented the chairman JLF. Hansen, at the annual meetine the Awahuri Dairy Company. Tr speaker stressed the need for* the ir troduction of some scheme to mcr firmly establish the industry. Mr. X. Campbell said that althonf: local sales had brought last r*. son as compared with 3d received b exporters, those who had refrain from exporting bad directly benefit, by the fact that some 60,000 pigs L: been taken off the Dominion mark-::. Unless that surplus was again g rid of, there would be another slim: this season. The Patterson scheir had been operating successfully : Australia, and it required somethKsimilar in New Zealand to meet tr situation. It had been suggested tic a levy of one farthing per pig kiiK in the Dominion be imposed whk while assisting toward the export trac would automatically raise the price c: the article sold locally. The opinion of the meeting war strongly in favour of the introduces of some scheme, and, in addition i recommending the directors to ptany scheme for the encouragement AN UNCOMMON SIGHT