EGGS FOR HOSPITALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1943, Page 2

EGGS FOR HOSPITALS

♦ COMPLAINT BY GREYTOWN MATRON. NEW ORGANISATION BLAMED. A complaint by the Matron of the Greytown Hospital that most unsatisfactory eggs were being received from the South Wairarapa Egg Floor was considered at yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board. It was decided to approach the Egg Floor committee with a view to the board reverting to its previous source of supply. The Managing-Secretary, Mr Norman Lee, read a report from Miss Higginson, Matron of the Greytown Hospital, which stated that in one dozen eggs received at the hospital six were inclined to float in a saucepan. A poached egg had been ordered in another case and after four eggs had been tried the order had to be cancelled. Mr Lee said the position was brought about as a result of “the Egg Floor business.” Mr A. Clark: “It is quite common right through.” Mr Lee said the position was not bad at the Masterton Hospital, but the trouble was to get eggs when they were required. For the previous ten years the Masterton Hospital had been supplied with eggs from a poultry farm, without a single complaint evei’ being received about the eggs. The hospital had been granted permission by the North Wairarapa Egg Floor to continue getting its eggs from the same source. , Mr Lee said that Miss Higginson wanted to resume getting eggs from a former source of supply in Greytown. At present this supplier had to take eggs into Carterton and then the eggs had to go back to Greytown Hospital. Buying from the floor meant getting assorted eggs. Mr A. Forsberg: “There is too much control everywhere.” Mi* Trevor Beetham: “It means finding more jobs for someone.” The board decided to ask the floor if Greytown Hospital could secure eggs from the former source of supply.