POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

Shannon News, 8 March 1927, Page 4

POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

THE EXPORT MARKET. AUCKLAND, March 4. At the conference of the New Zealand Poultry Association, it was decid' td to withdraw from the N.Z. Farm ers' Union with which it has been affiliated for the last five years. The question was raised during consideration of the executive's report which recalled that the previous conferencj had recommended that affiliation be cancelled owing to the financial state of the association and that affiliation without representation be sought, which the union would allow at a nominal fee of £5 ss. Mr W. J. Jordan, M.P., said the possibilities of the egg industry were not altogether understood in New Zealand. England had in 1924 imported £13,000, 000 worth of eggs in the shell, of which £11,000,000 worth had been imported from foreign countries, and but £16.000. worth from New Zealand. Since then there had been a yearly decrease in New Zealand of eggs sent to England, yet there was a ready market there for New Zealand eggs, which leached there at a time when there was a slackening in the marketing of egg 3. Messrs H. G. R. Mason and E. D. M'Lennan, and Mr. F. C. Brown, chief poultry instructor, spoke and urge-! the importance of quality in export eggs. Two remits which were passed unanimously were that the Government be asked for a grant of £IOO each to the Auckland and Papanui egg-laying competitions and that the association ask the Government to send Mr. F. C. Brown as Government delegate to the World Poultry Congress.