EXCESSIVE PROFIT?

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 27

EXCESSIVE PROFIT?

MARKETING DEPARTMENT. POULTRY KEEPER'S CHARGE, i ' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A statement that the Internal Marketing Department's business was being run precisely on the lines it was brought into being to stop was made by Mr. T. Gill (Oamaru) at the annual conference of the New Zealand Poultry Producers' Federation to-day. Mr. Gill is a member of the New Zealand Poultry Board. In winter, when there was a big demand for pulp, lie was notified by the Department that a proportion of his eggs were stale, said Mr. Gill. He was told by a merchant that at that time pulp was selling at 1/2 a pound. Eight or nine eggs were required for a pound of pulp and he had been paid lid a dozen. That meant that the Department was making nearly 100 per cent profit. The eggs might have been stale, but when the weather became warmer and there was no demand for pulp the notification of stale eggs suddenly ceased. The eggs were then sold on the market. "It is a fair inference," the speaker continued, "that the Department's business is being run on precisely those lines that it was brought into being to stop."