Slating that the prohibitive costs, first of food to Westland, and then of pigs back to the works, made the position of the big producer on the West Coast a difficult one, Mr C. L. Searle, of Southbridge, told delegates to the annual meeting of the Canterbury District Pig Council in Christchurch; that bacon would have to sell at 9d or lOd per lb before pig raising there would be profitable. “I have seen milk running away down the streams there,” he added. The council’s supervisor (Mr H. W. Mclntosh) said he did not think the position generally was as bad as Mr Searle suggested. There was a good prospect for the industry, properly organised, on the Coast. A remit was received from the Hari Hari Pig Club asking for the introduction of a system of an agricultural bank to assist farmers with finance, and it was decided to ask the supervisor to report on conditions at Hari Hari and on ways in which the council could help the farmers there.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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