Export of Orkney Eggs Valued at £305,608

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 101, 15 May 1937, Page 16

Export of Orkney Eggs Valued at £305,608

GLASGOW. — Egg production ih th Orkney Isles is a swiftly prospering in dustry, it was revealed here when Mis Garrioch, an Orcadian, addressed tb Eoyal Philosophical Society. Chicken farming has developed «i much recently, Miss Garrioch said, tha last year the egg production represente* twice the annual rental of the whol county. The number of eggs exportec was, she declared, 3,270,956 of a tota value of £205,608. There is now One car to every ten 0: the 22,000 population^ Miss GarriocJ stated. A keen interest is taken ii education and more students are sen to the Universities of Aberdeen an Edinburgh from Kirkwall Gramma: Sehool in Orkney than from any othe: school in the north of Scotland. The 800th anniversary of Kirkwal Cathedral is to be celebrated this sum mer, and a great historical pageant is t1 be presented. A good air service as weJ as regular steamers make a journey t the northern islands a simple matter, To a fashionable hotel i,n Paris cami a New York tailor named Goldber| who knew not a word of French. Tirei of the continual questioning by Cus toms officials, he seated himself in th dining-rooni, next to a strange man whc smiled and said: ''Bon jour." The tailer, believing this was ad ditional questioning, answered: "Gold berg.," At luncheon. that day, the same mai smiled, and again said: "Bon jour." Again came the reply: •'Goldberg.' Shortly he made inquiry and learnec that "bon jour" means "good day.' And so at dinner that night, when hi spied the same stranger, the tailor bea him to the greeting, stating: "Boi jour." The stranger smiled and answered "Goldberg." ^ §> ♦ "But how do you manage to got rid'6 uinvelcome visitors?" asked Jones, dur ing a visit to his old frieud Brown. "Nothing is more simple, my dea; fellow. When4my wife thinks people hav wasted enough of my time she sends tu maid to tell me I am wanted on th 'phone, and it words admirably." At that moment there was a knock or the door, and the aid entered. "You are Wanted on the 'phone, sir.' she aaid*