EXPORT OF EGGS.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 14

EXPORT OF EGGS.

"• '' The .price". received. by Canterbury ex!'.;'foorters of.:eggs 'last'year, 9%d a dozen •: jtet, for the (season ■embracing September, /-October, and November, was considered !;.'satisfactory. Today the cost of feed is '-'considerably lower, and a better return is ("hoped for. The-eggs reach. England at a Ktime when, the demand is highest—Chnst- ': mas and the depth of winter—and natur■Ms.Uy a higher price is secured then than I'i-ai any other time'of the year. Figures !;','lffcparcd by Mr. C. J. Cusßen, Governifuient Poultry Inspector, showed that last U'yiear 54.420 dozen eggs were Bent to the S grading store; 46,91? dozen or 86.2 per "_£ent. were passed and packed for export, '^and 7501 dozen were rejected. i' 'A considerable increase is expected tins I'y'ear in the export of eggs from Canter- ! ■'■ ijury to London compared with last year. .'•■-liast year approximately 50,000 dozen eggs 'iSyere shipjed to England, but this year provision is being made for the crating of dozen. The Canterbury Egg Ex- ' ;'po»'t Committee, according to the secretary '"(Mr. S. P. Marshall), is very sanguine as ' %o the success of the production this year, 'and is therefore making provision for the 'supply of a larger number of crates.

" Italy has an important optical goods industry, and there are now in that coun-'-■•try some forty factories equipped on up-*,.to-date lines for the maniitaeturo or 'optical instruments and goods. Che capital invested in the industry amounts to ';, come eighty million lire. Some four thou"fend workers and technical experts are employed in the different branches of the rework.