MARKETS IN BRITAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 13

MARKETS IN BRITAIN

BACON AND PORK HAVE GREAT PROSPECTS DOMINION SHOULD PROFIT Great opportunities for New Zealand pork and bacon exist in the markets in the United Kingdom, states a report from the Empire Marketing Board to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. New Zealand bacon is already attracting many inquiries, and, the report continues, is regarded as well cured -and of very reliable quality. The demand in the most denselypopulated industrial areas of England for staple articles of food, such as cheese, butter, bacon and eggs, is surveyed. Foreign bacon has a large market in England, and much comes from Denmark. The northern demand is for a lightly #Aired, lean article, and consignments of New Zealand bacon, cured in England from Dominion frozen pork, have been placed on the market. The result has been so satisfactory that more is to be treated in the same manner. The Empire Marketing Board reports that four large firms have experimented with British-cured New Zealand bacon, and have found the demand so great that they have resolved to place bigger orders. There are satisfactory features in the butter reports. New Zealand butter has won such a good reputation in London that some firms have ceased to stock foreign competitive products and are concentrating on the Dominion’s butter. On the northeast coast, Danish butter still dominates the selling market. New Zealand, Canadian and Australian cheese are marketed collectively in the north and are sold as “Empire” cheese. Imported coloured cheese, which once came from the United States, has been driven olf this market.