“FOWLS FACING STARVATION”
POSITION IN HUTT VALLEY REQUEST FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 26. The fowl food position was desS erate, saicj the chairman (Mr B. latthews) at a meeting of poultry keepers in the Hutt Valley last bight. Advice received from Timaru that afternoon was that the storage space there was filled to capacity. Mr J. S. Sinclair said that if the public were' getting one egg a week now, they would be lucky It they got one a month in the near future unless the Government facilitated the shipping of food. The meeting resolved to write to the Prime Minister (the Rt Hon. P. Fraser) and also to ask other poultry keepers’ organisations throughout New Zealand to do the same, placing before him the urgent need for supplies of food for the flocks. The following telegram was sent to the Prime Minister by the secretary of the Hutt Valley Poultry Keepers’ Association (Mr J. N. Little) to-day: “Hutt Valley poultry keepers faced with flock starvation. Many have no food except grain, yet Timaru overstocked with surplus pollard and bran. Your assistance solicited urgently.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 4
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