THE POULTRY TRADE
- AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. GREAT STRIDES IN. AUCKLAND
Press Association,
AUCKLAND, Tuesday,
Mr. D. D. Hyde, Government Poultry Expert, remarked to a Herald reporter to-day that the Auckland poultry trade bad gone ahead by leaps and bounds. Tho production from April Ist, 1906, to March 3ist-, this year, was about 15,000 head for export and the local market, and 1,128,000 eggs—a great' increase on the previous year. If gone about- iu tho proper way, the industry would take its place alongside the butter aiid frozen meat trades.
At the opening of a new poultry grading depot 'at Auckland, -alt* Pounsford, poultry grader, stated that the number of poultry handled 'at Auckland. increased from 5063 ill 1906 to 14,081 last year. The eggs handled increased during the same period frogi 119,723 to 128,(68.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 1
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134THE POULTRY TRADE Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 1
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