EGG-LAYING COMPETITION IN AUCKLAND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 266, 6 November 1905, Page 4

EGG-LAYING COMPETITION IN AUCKLAND.

It is now definitely decided that a& egg-laying competition will commence in Auckland next April. At a meeting of the committee of the Poultry Association, held on Tuesday evening, arrangements were made for a very strong Guarantee fund to finance the competition, and as soon aa a suitable site is chosen from those under offer, | the aub committee will at once frame rules and regulations for carrying out the test. Besides the test of tho respecstive merits of the different breads competing, it is expoctod that a sys i-.«maticcouJ petition of this class will exercise a most beneficial effect upon 6he whole industry. 16 is often remarked that Auckland ia a lor«g way behind tho So .-them centres in the matter of poultry export trade, large orders having been refused iv Aackland owing to insuffle ent stock, whereas the Sou h baa sacu?ed a good trm-ket in south Africa aud cbe United Kingdom. With the inducement that is now offering for an increased egg production, coupler) with the assurance that there is a good market for ali el isses of table poultry that can be prepared, it is only reasonable to assume that more attenion will now bo pai - to tbia indnstry. —N.Z. fcferald.