the egg market

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 13

the egg market

Sir It is apparent from the requests recently made by poultry farmers to the Government auent regulations to prevent the sale of stale eggs that produeprq have the welfare of the public at heart. How necessary this proposed regulation is will be seen by the followmg instance :—W hen the' Hon. G. W. rorbes received the deputation Isl “"s noultrv farmers on the 26th ult., e »S s were being retailed in Wellington at 2s. 9d per dozen. This unusually high price was’lue to the absence of southern eggs on the Wellington market! faet hard to understand considering that eggs were quoted at Is. 9d. south, with 2d. per dozen marketing cost to Wellington. In a little over a week eggs have dropped to 2s. 2d. per dozen, with the market In the first place the 2s. 9d. charged to Wellington housewives was not a true indication of the market, and was due to the cessation of southern supplies, in the second, it is a safe guess to say that eggs will be held until the market stabilises, because production is decreaspublic and the North Island poultry farmers have a right to demand that the Wellington market shall be supplied regularly with eggs of sound quality, but we are powerless without the aid or legislation.—l am. etc., b S. G. BATTEN. Acting Sec. Wellington District Poultry Farmers’ Association. March 7.