Eggs To Be Sold By Weight In Tauranga On Monday

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 15059, 20 August 1949, Page 2

Eggs To Be Sold By Weight In Tauranga On Monday

Three Months' Trial Of Scheme Committee To Analyse Data Collected (Special to The Times) Wellington, Aug. 19. ''For some years the poultry industry has advocated a system for the selling of eggs by weight," said the Hon. E. L. Cullen, Minister of Agriculture and Marketing in a statement today. "A meeting between the poultry industry and the New Zealand Master Grocers' Federation resulted in a decision to sell eggs by weight for a trial period in Tauranga. "A member of the New Zealand Poultry Board recently attended meetings of Tauranga retailers and other interested parties who agreed to give the scheme a three months' trial. A special price authorisation, covering the sale of eggs by weight, has been issued by the Price Control Division." The Minister added that he had approved of the new system commencing on Monday, August 22 when the wholesale price would be one shilling and sevenpence per pound (as compared with two shillings and five pence half-penny per dozen standard grade) and the retail price one shilling and tenpence per pound. It was intended to allow the scheme to operate for a period of up to three months. A special .committee was being set up comprising retailers, the egg floor, poultry producers and consumers. At the end of the trial period the data collected would be carefully analysed. "The 7Ad per dozen eggs subsidy remains, and will still be paid on all eggs which so through the Egg Marketing Board," Miss Stewart emphasised. "At present," she remarked,, "there is apparently no price order on duck eggs." These, she said, would still have to go on being sold by the. dozen. ,