EXPORT OF EGGS.

Shannon News, 5 December 1924, Page 2

EXPORT OF EGGS.

LOCAL RETURNS. The last shipment, qf eggs, for export (from the Weiiirigton district, were despatched Irom Wellington on Monday, making a total of. fuse crates of thirty, dozens exported this season. 01 this, amount tne Wellington District Poultry Farmers’ Association exported 800 crates, the. remaining ids? crates being the property of the various agents. The percentage of rejects in eggs sent in for grading gives, some, idea of the need for the production of a more uniform standard of egg, a fact which has been lrequently urged by the officers of the Department of Agriculture and *» those interested in me poultry industry. Out of the eggs forwarded irom thO Wellington Poultry Farmers’ Association, 45.5 per cent, were rejected as unfit for export, whilst those ' submitted by agents were 47.6 per cent, to 76.13 ,per cent, unfit. A& the charges made, by the Government for grading are. based on the percentage found suitable for -export, this, fact is. important. The cost of grading and other charges for the Wellington Association’s. Oggs works out at 2.46 d per dozen, whilst in the case of one agent's supply it was as high as 7.26 d per dozen, a charge which, was. sufficient to rob the export of any possible profit. The prices of two shipments of eggs have corne to hand, and are as. follow: Per s.s. lonic, A grade 25s Bd, B grade 21s 9d, per long hunched of ten dozen eggs. The proportion of A grade, eggs to B grade in this shipment was 60—40.

The Port Dennison shipment realised 26s and 27s for A grade, and 22s 6d for B grade, the ratio in this case being 50—50. The Orari and Rotorua shipments are not yet. to hand. .