BLACK MARKET IN EGGS
EXTENSIVE DEALINGS (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. V. Black marketing in eggs has reached serious proportions- in tire Canterbury egg marketing district, according to the chairman of directors of the Central Egg Floor, Mr C. Ferguson. On a turnover involving over 1,000,001) dozen eggs in, the 20 weeks to the end of December last the Central Floor showed a drop in supplies of 150,001/ dozen eggs compared with the corre- . sponding period in 1942. Those eggs, he said, were obviously being sold through illegal channels. Actually, the extent of the blank marketing, said Mr Ferguson, was even greater because the eggs received in 1942 did not represent anything like, the total that should have ' come through the Central Egg Floor. Itwas estimated that au aaitioual. 20U,000 dozen eggs were not being mar-.. kctcd throusih tin* regulation channels.
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Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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139BLACK MARKET IN EGGS Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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