EGG SHORTAGE IN WELLINGTON
Supplies Reduced By Half
(Fmm Oui Own Reporter)
WELLINGTON. December 21. Housewives in Wellington. in the middle of their Christmas baking, have had their egg sunplies reduced The Egg Marketing Authority has cut supplies to shopkeepers by half. A spokesman for the authority denied that the cause of the cut was the fact that big supplies had beer, sent to the Antarctic in the New Zealand ship. Endeavour.
‘The Ross Sea Committee took only 300 dozen eggs.” said the spokesman The shortage of eggs is attributed to an unexpected slump in laying and to the fact that poultry keepers have been killing their old birds for table use
The demand for eggs this year in Wellington has been higher than usual.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 12
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