The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1921. THE EXPORTING OF EGGS

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1921. THE EXPORTING OF EGGS

In the very interns ting annual report of liis department the Minister of Agriculture gives the heartening .summing up thai the prospects lor tlie coming year 1 are bright for our producing interests. Ho shows that sheep have swung bark to the leading place in, value of export trade and that all i.s well with the dairying industry—but there must be better quality and close combination on the part of farmers in the sphere of co-operation. But what about the egg industry? The Agricultural Department should devote a little time and space and organising trouble to boosting the matter of the export of the egg. Just now the steamer Port Curtis is loading 600 cases of eggs ,at Timaru and Oamaru, .'lO dozen, eggs being packed in each case, for the London market. "> But that is only one little lot, when "there might be a shipload. That it pays to ship overseas has been amply proved, and there is an leggman in Foilding who lias found the venture successful Speaking at the Christehurcli Poultry Club rooms the other evening, Mr J. P>. Merrett, who has just been to .England boosting our product, stated that be bad received a letter from the Ministry of Agriculture in England asking, New Zealand to 7iiake exhibits of eggs at various shows. He had also received a cable message to the effect that the British Broadcasting Company would broadcast throughout England an article be had written, entitled "The Poultry Industry in New Zealand." Professor Brown would read the address, and thus New Zealand would be the subject of a speech to over a million "li.stoners-in." But what is the good of all the boosting if the eggs are not there to meet the enquiry and the demand? Fromi various directions we learn that the indications for the present season in the poultry farming industry seem to be fairly satisfactory and, therefore the belated decision of various associations and. merchants to vigorously prosecute the export of eggs must have a stimulating effect on the industry. It is wise to have an export trade for the flush of the production season. Exportation i& no longer in. the experimental stage. Shipment aggregating a million of the useful little article have been, successful at Ho7ue 3 sales being effected readily As a result of his personal investisgatioas on the spot only a, few weeks ago ; Mr Merrett noticed a wonderful and growing popularity in England in favour of New Zealand produce. Mr Merrett went to England to supervise trial shipments of New Zealand eggs and to establish, if possible a regular market in London for this product. "There is no limit," he( saitj, "to our possibilities in regard to eggs on the London market. I noticed a tremendous change in favour of. New Zealand products," And he came to the conclusion that nothing

could he more humiliating to the English people engaged in the poultry industry than to sea the Dutch and Danish eggs realising 4-d and 5d peldozen more in the winter time than the English egg. New Zealand is putting up a goo.d fight at Home against the Hutch cheese and Danish butter —why not against the foreign yolk as well?