GRADING OF PIGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 6

GRADING OF PIGS.

| REGULATION SUPPORTED. GREAT HELP TO PRODUCERS. “ The new grading regulations now definitely decided upon by the Department of Agriculture, while capable of further improvement nevertheless , represent a very big step forward.” stated Mr \\ . Phillips, chairman of I directors of the New Zealand Co- ] operative Pig Marketing Association, : interviewed to-day. "In view of Ilia j overwhelming evidence to support ! them, only those who have private j interests to serve are likely to express doubt or disapproval.” | Mr I'hiliips said the necessity for these reforms had been persistently advocated by his organisation for many years, the urgent need for which had. over the last few months, been strongly endorsed bv the New Zealand Meat Hoard's London manager, the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and tin* National Da r> \ —o. idion. \?1 of these bodies and Professor \\ . Riddel and Mr Nash, whose rce-mt special investigations abroad fully qualified them to speak with authority, had viewed the matter from its national aspects. As a producers' organisation, these were the only considerations that concerned them. j ” Nothing could more rapidly and effectively raise the average level of export and local values to the farmer • th ill for I! e e-d'lii .fed pigS now marketed annually by butter-milk to 11 hi 1 itv their output for the finest