EGG PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 74, 29 March 1939, Page 10

EGG PRICES

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l would like to know through your paper why the Internal Marketing Department gave the poultry farmers less for their eggs than the wholesale prices quoted in your issue of the "Evening Post" of March 14. The Department advises that there had been no change in the wholesale prices of eggs in Wellington this week, and that the market is a little firmer, stocks moving off, consumption improving, and inquiry much better. Prices are as follows:—Supers, Is lid per dozen; A grade, Is lOd; B grade, Is 8d; C grade, Is Id. Instead of receiving the prices quoted I get paid, as do other poultry farmers who send their eggs to the Department, the following prices:—Supers, Is lid per dozen; A grade, Is 9>d; B grade, Is 7£d; and C grade, lOd per dozen, the last-named a difference of 3d per dozen from the price quoted, and a difference of 9d per dozen in the C grade in less than three weeks, besides a fall in price of 3d per dozen or thereabouts in the supers, A, and B grades. This has been going on for some time. Surely the poultry farmers are entitled to the wholesale prices for their eggs. They do not receive any bonus at the end of the season.—l am, etc., '

POULTRY FARMER,