EGG WITHIN AN EGG

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 9, 26 January 1937, Page 7

EGG WITHIN AN EGG

• — - - A Havelock Nortb Freak Tr-iif ,m~ Shoyter working hours and ineroased lemure among the workers of thfl Dominion, as recently introduced, aie PUtting time-«aving ideag into the mmdst of some of the workers v/ho receiye no pay and do not helong to any tmion, A Havelock North indian Runner duek decfded this week-end to see whaf, conld - be done in the mattcr of mamtaining .egg ontput and at the eame time reducing the time required for egg-Iayingj activities. The result, which was shown to a 'HeraldTribone" ^epoi'ter torday is not yery Batisfactory, and it is cei-tainly not the type of egg that the average housewife wquld appreciate. Rriefly this egg is an egg within an egg — or at least that is whaf. thp duck intended the product to he. This monstrosity consist3 of aq overgize duck-egg, cornplete with volk- and white, bqf encased only In fhe whjte ''skin" 'o,r fissne fopnd undcr the shell. The shelj \n this in? Itqnce is, however, Iqpking. Cpntgined withjn this parf-egg, is ahother egg., this lattpr PU? complete |n eyery- re•pect. The owner pf'the duck which pevpe^itgd this mnmpal design in eggs ^tated thot this is the first 'oepasien pn whiph this sflrt of thing has Imppaned. an4 fcf yiewed with evident disfayoor the m*nufaetur© of qn egg, appjirently mpre sqited for poJitical, meetings tban |gr demestie • cpnsumption.