MILLIONS IN EGGS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4969, 3 May 1926, Page 3

MILLIONS IN EGGS.

AN EMISSARY FROM LONDON. OPENING FOR DOMINION.. .“Do you know that England spent £20,000',000 for 'imported eggs last year ? ’ aske.d Mr M. Orchard, of London, who has been through New Zealand and Australia combining business with pleasure for the laist: three months. *Tt is an enormous trade, and one that is increasing every year. What concei-ns me, a,nd should, concern others, is, that of that £20,00'0,000 only £2,000.0000' comes, to the overseas British dominions, whilst the £18,000,000 goes to foreign countries, mostly to Holland and Denmark ; but. really London gets her eggs, from anywhere, she can—France, Russia, and even China send large quantities every month. What I am aiming at is for the overseas dominions to get that £18,000,000,,and leave the £2,000,000 to the foreigners ; and it is with that aim in view that. I have been addressing a series, of meetings in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia in order to get the poultry people of those States to .organise more closely and go in for intense production. There is an eveiopen market for their product, and they should be able to produce enormous quantities of eggs if they go in for the business on proper scientific lines, breeding only the best laying strains.” As'the remit of Mr (Orchard’s addresses in the various States 1 theie. was to have been held a big conference of poultry men in Sydney during Easter to consider closer co-opera-tion. All the eggs from New Zealand are shipped “fresh” in cold store, where they are kept, at a tempei atuie. of about 40 degrees,/and on arrival a,t Home they are delivered direct from the steamer’s side to the consumers that is, -the retail stoops, the big bakers, hotels, restaurantkeepers, pastrycooks;, etc., all of whom have.their own cold stores,.