POULTRYMEN IN CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21510, 27 June 1935, Page 8

POULTRYMEN IN CONFERENCE

# CONTROL OF MARKETING SOUGHT "WORK MOST SERIOUSLY HINDERED" ■ i'IIILSS ABFOCrA-noi: "f F. LEGIUi:.) WELLINGTON, June 26. The New Zealand poultry producers' conference adopted a remit that eggs to be chilled stamped before being placed in a cool store. A remit asking the Health Department to enforce the regulations relating to preserved eggs was carried, also a resolution suggesting that the control of the marketing of preserved eggs should be under the Department of Agriculture. Two remits asking for regulations governing chick-sexing experts and for the appointment of a Government expert were carried, also remits asking for an amendment to the law to give poultrykeepers the right to shoot dogs, and that the license fees for. poultrymen's dogs should not be more than 2s 6d. After an animated debate the federation decided to ask the Government to confer on the Poultry Board power to control the marketing of products. The full text of the motion, which was adopted, is as follows: "That this council, after full consideration, is of the opinion that the effectiveness of the work of the New Zealand Poultry Board for producers is being most seriously hindered by the absence of power to enable producers to control the marketing of their own produce, to enable the producers to control their own business, and to eliminate the possibility of price manipulation. We are of the opinion that the Government should be requested to introduce legislation conferring power on the board on the lines of clause 12, paragraphs (B) and <C) of the Poultry Act, 1924, which reads as follows: (B> Regulating the marketing of poultry and of eggs for consumption in New Zealand, and providing for the grading of tuch er'gs and poultry: (C> regulating the export of poultry or of eggs, and providing for the grading and packing of poultry and of eggs for export from New Zealand. This council is also of the opinion that should the board obtain this power, the board should su!>mit to all branches full details of any scheme or schemes it may wish to put into operation." "As to marketing, we must go the lull distance or leave it jilo.ak," said

Mr A. J. Maclaine (Wellington), in moving the motion. The industry, he added, would never flourish until the producers had complete conlrol over their products.