ANCIENT EGG BOARDS

Northern Advocate, 26 June 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

ANCIENT EGG BOARDS

“People think that the Egg Board is an encumbrance of modern times,” says Mr. Kinghorn, of the Australian Museum. “It isn’t, you know. There was an egg board in the times of St. Paul.” i

This has been revealed by. the researches of Dr. C. M. Cobern, who, in translating some ancient papyri, learned that human nature had changed very little, if at all, down through the ages. It seems that the papyri relate that in the time of St. Paul, corporations and even individuals were engaged in business and plans which show our methods of to-day to be hopelessly behind the times, while some of their workings and ideas could be termed ‘up-to-date.” For example, the egg vendor, in A.D.' 32-87, was placed on oath not to sell eggs privately at a discount, but at fixed prices, and then only through a public market; We live and learn; even as schoolboys we knew that banks were of ancient times, because it is written that Moses received a cheque on the bank of the Nile. There still are people who sigh for “the good old ways/* 1 As Mark Twain would have ;sriid, “. . . it’s a gross exaggeration.” ;