Waikato Egg Output Fails

Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1947, Page 4

Waikato Egg Output Fails

_ li/ is esumateq tnat egg production in the Waikato this seasori is20 per cent. below the average Putput, and an acute shortage of eggs is expected. The position is attribut3d to the high price of grain and che difficulty in procuring adequate supplies of feed. Some poultry breeders have gone out of business and others haVe had to reduce their floCks. Ample Coal With regular deliveries being maintained the pfesent coal position at the Palmerston North railway yards is the best it has been for some time. Right throughout the holiday period regular supplies have been delivered and the set allocation that has arrived each WCek has made the position a comparatiVely, stable one. AlthoUgh the railway yards have ho Con.trol over their own coal supply, while supplies contihue to arrive the trains poiitinue to ruh. The gasworks have been less favourably placed, Over the holiday season stocks begah to ruh low but there Was suffieiCnt to keep gas supplies Up aild to ensUre gas users of a weli-cooked- Christmas dinner. The position- now is slowiy reverting to normal.

Lost Maori Aritiquities The finest Coiiectioh of Maori utiquities in the World, apart from those ih rriuseums in New Zeamiid, has gone astfay" since the beginning of the last war, aCcordhg to Dr. C. B. Humphreys, fteeper of the West Pacific collCction in the ! Cambridge tiniversity MUseum, i Ehglahd. He is visitihg NeW Zealand to arfaiige for eJcChanges of 5 exhibits befween the Cambridge ? and NeW Zeaiand mUseums. Dr. I Humphreys, said the collection he i referred to was in the ■ Beriin s MuSeum before the war, but J whether the pieCes were still in the J museums of Germahy or had been hioved was not knowh. The armies i of occUpation did riot seem to be i cohcerhed with tfacing them. c