EXPORT OF EGGS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 296, 27 September 1935, Page 7

EXPORT OF EGGS

NEARLY 2,000,000 FOR LONDON.

RECORD CANTERBURY SEASON.

(Special to the “ Guardian.”)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

This egg exporting season is likely to prove a very satisfactory one for Canterbury poultry farmers. The shipments will constitute- a record since the export industry started, and the eggs have already been sold at a price which is expected' to be better than that received for last season’s export eggs. Two overseas cargo vessels now in Lyttelton, the Mataroa and the Middlesex, are loading Canterbury eggs. Already one shipment has left, and next month a fourth vessel will arrive which will also include Canterbury eggs in its cargo. The Mataroa and the Middlesex yesterday loaded between them 2028 crates (more than 70,000 eggs), a record “lift” for any single day since the export industry was started. The Mataroa took 1625 crates and the Middlesex 403. The shipment which left earlier this month was 1100 crates, and later another 2000 will be sent away. So that when the season ends the Canterbury Egg Export Committee, which arranges the shipments, will be able to claim a record season with a shipment of more than 1,800,000 eggs. All the eggs which have been shipped have been sold, and at a price which is considered satisfactory ancl which is stated to be likely to show a. slightly better return for the producer than the price received for the eggs exported last season.