EXPORT OF EGGS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1932, Page 2

EXPORT OF EGGS

SHIPMENT FROM CANTERBURY. CHRISTCHURCH, September 'l4. Definite arrangements have be©n completed for a shipment of 15,000 dozen Canterbury eggs by the Port Huon, leaving Lyttelton on September 17. ■.The indications are that good prices will be realised in England for this shipment. Latest information from the Home market gives every indication that New Zealand eggs will find a ready demand at good prices. Last year three shipments were made from Canterbury and the first realised Is 6d in London, to which uvas added 10 per cent, premium on exchange, making a gross total of approximately Is 8d a dozen. From this had to be deducted expenses of' sh pment amounting to 63d- a dozen, leaving a net return in Christchurch to the shippers of Is a dozen. This year the prospects in London are more favourable on account of the preference obtained at the Ottawa Conference and the present difference with Ireland. In Christchurch eggs are now being sold at lid a dozen, which is below the price expected to be realised this year for exported eggs. As the local prices are not sufficient to make a profit on production it is expected the export of large quantities will have a beneficial effect on the local market,

Arrangements are under way for a (further Canterbury shipment, which will in all probability leave about toward the end of next month. The possibility of organising annual shipments of eggs is under consideration by the Canterbury Egg Export Committee which is representative of producers and their selling agents. The amazing increase in the export of eggs from Australia to England indicated that, if properly organised, cj-gs will in- future become an important factor in "New Zealand’s export trade. Last year New Zealand eggs were 'considered most favourably by the London buyers on account of the rigid supervision given to export by the New Zealand Government graders.

AUCKLAND SHIPMENTS. 'AUCKLAND, September 14. Nearly 600,000 eggs wild reach . the London market from Auckland this year, more than twice as many as last year’s total of 280.000. lit addition there swill be about 400,000 sent from southern centres, making a total from the Dominion of about 1,000,000. ‘ The season’s first shipment, comprising 180 crates, a itotal of 64,800 eggs, will arrive in London in a few, week*' time.

“We have got past the experimental stage in the export of eggs, as the i>,creased Auckland shipments show,” said Mr-'-A/ J.• ..tfoughin;' manager of (Poultry Producers’ Products. , f. “Until producers ar t / able to purchase fowl wheat at reae'onable prices; New Zealand will be at a disadvantage on tile export market,’’ «md Mr Havvey ’Turner. “At present I regard export merely as. a means of preventing a glut on the local .market.”