MARKETING OF EGGS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1931, Page 7

MARKETING OF EGGS

POULTRY INDUSTRY SCHEME. LEGISLATIVE CONTROL. Urging that the poultry industry had about reached its limit as a voluntary organisation, Air J. N. 'McLean, organiser of the New Zealand Poultry Association, addressed the , poultrykeepers during their visit to the Poultry Experimental' Station ait Wallacevilie on Saturday afternoon. He outlined the scheme for legislation similar to that governing the fruit industry, and said tha|t a Bill to this end had been in preparation, or had been prepared, during the time that Air A. J. Alurdoch had been Alinister of Agriculture. Under the provisions of the proposed Bill, all poultry-keepers who sold eggs avould be registered and would pay a fee of 2s 6d per 100 fowls, or part of a hundred, but reasonable exemptions would be provided for. Such an Act would work in the interests of the poultry industry in that in the event of their being any cause for complaint •action could he taken. Under a scheme like (that all who sold ! eggs for profit would be brought together, nnd it might be possible to subsidise, to a reasonable extent, the export of eggs. The proposals had the support of the Department, said Mr AleLean, and also that of Air Alurdoch. when he was Alinister of Agriculture. Although Mr Alurdoch’s successor had not been favourable t° it, he believed that his opposition was made with a lack of knowledge ot the industry.