EGGS FROM CANADA
(By Telegraph.) (Special, to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day,
Among the cargo on the Niagara were 200 cases of eggs from Canada for the Auckland market.
Interviewed on the probable effect of the importation of these eggs on prices iv Auckland, the manager of a prominent firm of egg.merchants said the price would not be affected in the least.
"The quantity is so small," lie said, "and local eggs are so scarce at Ihe present time, that they ;will be quickly absorbed without a decrease in the price." It was also understood that'most of the eggs had been sold before they arrived. "For some unknown reason eggs are exceptionally scarce in Auckland," he said.
Two prominent egg producers said they did not complain of the quantity of .eggs ijnported, but at the principle. They had to buy foodstuffs for fowls which were protected by a sliding duty, and had to compete with imported eggs on which the imported duty was 20 per cent, on the f.o:b. price. The Government had been urged to increase the duty to give producers protection in slack seasons, which were the times they usually made their profits.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1930, Page 14
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196EGGS FROM CANADA Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1930, Page 14
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