EGG DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 10

EGG DAY.

rOR TUB HOSPITAL. Recently in Melbourne! the egg noted at ft mvdium for public charity. The egg bill at the Melbourne Hospital is about •£-50 i>er annum. Tliis sum reproscnta about 72,000 or GOOD dozen eggs. With a view to lightening this expenditure tho public was invited to make contributions of eggs, «nid tho innovation proved highly successful, about 1 170 dozen eggs boing sent in. At Iho main entrances of the Flinders Street and Princes Bridge Railway Stations placards announcing tho fact—Hi# ncivspapors liad given tho information belorcliaiid— were placed in n prominent position and at 7.30 a.m. basket's and other receptacles wcro waiting in readiness for the rush of business people. From then on till 11 o'clock, and again in t'lio afternoon, eggs-came singly, in half dozens, ojid in dozens. "Arc you the egg mail!* queried a small bov, grasping a 6mall parcel in his hand. "Yes, my lad," rep led the attendant. "Then here's a liltlo one for the baby," said tho small boy proffering his parcel. A homely looking woman carrying a rush basket approached. Slio tenderly placed six eggs in the receptacle. "They aro beautifully fresh, sho announced, "jivo laid vosler(ay And one this morning." One woman donated a pound of butter with her half awon eggs, Another man, evidently a resided in n suburban boardinghouso, said ho would obtain some eggs in town, and asked if a pound of bacon would not alsd bo acceptable. Every Thursday for the next few mcnths tho receptacles will bo placed at tho station entrances, and now that tho public lias had the matter more prominently brought under its notice, tho ro* Bponso will probably bo greater.