15 APRIL 1938, Page 3

This week bacon has succeeded fish as the main topic

of controversy. The Minister of Agriculture is constantly being assailed in the Beaverbrook Press as a failure. Scarcely anyone so regards him at Westminster. The speech in which he outlined his proposals for the reorganisation of the pig industry was a highly competent performance. He made it clear that this further scheme was not being imposed upon the industry, but represented in the main plans worked out and agreed by the elected representatives of the bacon-curers and bacon-producers themselves.