EGGS FOR HOSPITALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1943, Page 4

EGGS FOR HOSPITALS

PRODUCTION COUNCIL CHAIRMAN REPLIES. SUPPLIES FOR GREYTOWN AND MASTERTON. Replying to statements made at this week’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board about the supply of eggs to Masterton and Greytown hospitals, following the setting-up of egg floors in the district, Mr R. W. Kebbell, chairman of the Wairarapa Primary Production Council, expresses his surprise at the board allowing what he describes as misleading statements to go to the Press. Mr Kebbell. referring to complaints by the matron of the Greytown Hospital about the unsatisfactory condition of eggs received at that' institution, stated that Greytown Hospital had not purchased a single egg from either the Carterton or the Masterton egg floors. He understood . however, that a small number of eggs were sent to Greytown from the Masterton Hospital, but the secretary of the Hospital Board had assured him that the quality of the eggs supplied to the Masterton Hospital through the floor had been good. When the Greytown Hospital purchased its eggs through the correct channel at wholesale rates, the committee would undertake to see that good, fresh eggs were supplied but it could not be responsible for eggs bought other than through the floor. No permission had been given to the Masterton Hospital to continue to get its supplies from the same source as was the case before the floor was established, although at present the eggs were coming from the same grower. If it were impossible to make satisfactory arrangements between that grower and the floor, the eggs would be supplied from elsewhere, every bit as fresh. Mr Kebbell appealed to country growers to send every egg possible to the floors, which paid on a graded price if requested.