GROWING INDUSTRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 884, 30 January 1930, Page 12

GROWING INDUSTRY

EXPORT OF FRESH PORK TO ENGLAND CURED AT HOME An all-British bacon industry that is finding work for hundreds of men in England is being built up by means of successful co-operation between New Zealand and the Mother Country, states the London “Evening News.” “Britain is able to produce only a small of the p'gs required for her arinnal consumption of bacon,” said an official of the New Zealand Meat Board, "but she is capable of •curing every rasher eaten within her shores. “New Zealand began to ship supplies of fresh pork to Britain to be cured in this country. In 1924 the imports of New Zealand totalled 6,047 cwt. By 1928 the imports reached 123,554ewt, and this quantity has already been exceeded by about 20,000 cwt during the current year. “The whole of this pork is converted into bacon after it reaches England, and the curing finds work for hundreds of men in this country. The remarkable increase in the supplies—-twenty-fold in four years—is the best proof that New Zealand, pork makes a good quality bacon that is appreciated by the British public. Supplies from foreign countries such as Denmark, Holland, and Russia are nearly always cured in those countries and provide no employment in England. “New Zealand will soon be in a position to send far greater supplies of uncured poi-k than at present, thus finding work for still more men in this country.”