PORK SUBSIDY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 4

PORK SUBSIDY

BRIGHTER OUTLOOK h TRADE <Special to THE SUE.) -i DAKG AVILLE, Now that the Government ha* cided to stand behind the pig in New Zealand, and help it difficulties by a subsidy of meeting: is to be held in decide in what form the subiSST* be applied. This meeting will com!? representatives of the I>airy g®* Meat Board, pig breeders and'the?? ernment. In an endeavour to justify State to the export trade, the Prime ter. the Right Hon. J. G. in a speech at Ruawai that the ance which had been given thejJ industry had been warranted and? example had been followed in ihe of the wheat-growers. As a resqfet the subsidy on apples, the export u this season probably would mate one million cases. Inquiries in England had that our bacon and pork were the imported to the Home market, and? prospects for an established conaT tion there were bright. Our climate would enable us to p* duce pigs at such a price that *' could compete with Denmark. Danish export of pigs was in exce*„. that of butter. If it was possiblecrease the export of pork from X* Zealand to even one-half that of t***. what a help it would be to farmer Mr. Coates said the subsidy be applied solely to assist the exp*, trade, but it could not yet be aaeertained whether the £ 30,000 would fe paid as a reduction in freights or at* certain sum for each carcase.