THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.
Mr W. IT.Field M.P. asked the Minister of Agriculture, whether he has perused and considered the correspondence submitted to him by the member for Otaki and also copy of American statutes framed to protect the poultry industry in the United States and reprinted in a Supplement of the New Zealand Poultry Farmer ot the 20th July, 1915; and whether he will at once, if necessary, introduce similar legislation, or adopt other effective measures, to prevent American and other preserved eggs being sold in New Zealand as new-laid, and thus save poultryfarmers from sacrificing their fowls as they are now forced to do at ruinous prices, and save from destruction an industry for the encouragement and development of which the State has been spending large sums for years past, and upon which a large section of our population depends for a living, and which is already seriously menaced by the present ruinous price of fowl-food ? The Hou. Mr MacDonald (Minister of Agriculture) replied that the correspondence and legislation referred to had been perused .aud considered, and a BUI ou the subject would be introduced.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1440, 26 August 1915, Page 3
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186THE POULTRY INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1440, 26 August 1915, Page 3
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