THE EGG MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 8

THE EGG MARKET

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—lt is apparent from the requests recently made to the Government by poultry farmers anent "regulations to prevent the sale of stale eggs" that producers have the. welfare of the public at heart. How necessary this proposed regulation is will be seen by the following instance: When the Hon. Geo. W. Forbes received the deputation of North Island poultry farmers on the 20th ult., eggs were being retailed in Wellington at 2s 9d per dozen. This unusually high price was due to the absence of southern eggs on the' Wellington market (a fact 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 market still weak.

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 decreasing. The public and the North Island poultry farmers have * right to demand that the Wellington market shall be supplied regularly with eggs of sound quality, but we are powerless without the aid of legislation.—l am, etc.,

S. G. BATTEN, Acting-Secretary, Wellington Dib. Poul-

try Farmers' Association.