THE POULTRY CONFERENCE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2075, 16 March 1922, Page 2

THE POULTRY CONFERENCE

AUCKLAND DELEGATE’S VIEW A favourable report of the New Zealand Poultry Association Conference, held at Palmerston North last week, lias been taken by Mr. S. H. Scott, of Avondale South, who is an ex-president of the Association, and chairman of the executive. It was a remarkably good conference, said Mr. Scott, the poultry industry being better represented than ever before. Over 60 delegates representing over 13,000 members of affiliated bodies from Invercargill to Whangarei attended. It v/as generally considered the most important conference held since the formation of the New Zealand Poultry Association in 1910. and the decisions arrived at would be of greatest value to the industry. The conference was remarkably emphatic about the matter of the importation of Asiatic eggs, a strongly worded resolution being passed urging tht a prohibition of import should be gazetted immediately. Another question of importance was that the executive should appoint a market commission to attend to the trading and business side of the industry. The newly elected executive met during the conference and duly elected a commission. Its work is expected to have far reaching effect on the industry in future. The commision will devote its energies to tiie co-operat-ive buying and selling of food and poultry requisites, to the pulping of eggs for use in the Dominion, and for the export of eggs in the shell to America and England. The large increase of poultry keepers in the Dominion, and the prospective further increases forced this progressive movement to be adopted, remarked Mr. Scott.