IMPORTATION OF EGGS

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5

IMPORTATION OF EGGS

PROHIBITION ASKED FOR. Replying in OhnstchjuTOh to an allegation that imported ©gjgs were bought ifromi German firms in. {jfiina, the Hon. O. W- Russell said that the 'Oustoims Department assured h.imi, that.-ana. eggs from German firms -were allowed into* ithe Dominion. He ha<t had* imported' dried albumen and imported (preserVex!' ytollks analytically examined Government Analyst, 'anid' from Iris report he, as Minister, did not see Ms way to (pfrohibit the importation, of" these goodfe on (the ground .that ,<they were unfit for hiumarj corisumiption. He held in ywrrbing an offer by poultry people ito sell ■the Tvhole of their omtipuit to_the! "pastrycooks at the fbUowiing. prices;:-—First igrad'e., •Is Id pier : dozen;; second grade ,1s per dozen. He .urged pasta-ycooks to 'book their orders righlb away, H e was quiteini synrpathy '.the sug'geßtion' •that returned; soldadfts should be employed -to take _up poultry aid small fsDudt farms. Indeed,- he thought the village settlement system was itiha solution of the difficulty of finding employment for sioldiers. - • ,Mr .T. B. Merrett cpntended that there was no storage of Ne\v, Zealand eggs, and thlat last year a large.number of eggis had to be sacrificed at IJd per 'dozen. Local i egtgs had (been ousted',iby Oaaina, whiicißi was soldi a* : cheaper rates.