POULTRY INDUSTRY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 8 March 1930, Page 7

POULTRY INDUSTRY

DUTY ON WHEAT ABOLITION URGES (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, fitiNMarch. The poultrymen's conference was continued to-day. A remit that all eggs ho sold hy weight in lieu of hy the dozen was referred to the committee. A remit urging upon the Government thenecessity for the repeal of the wheat duties, on the ground that they imposed an unfair burden on the community and were an unfair handicap to the poultry industry, and also one advocating (in view of the fact that the Government had not scon its way to remove the duty from wheat) that some form of poultry wheat pooling be instituted to ensure North Island poultry-keepers getting wheat at a figure more in accord with the price paid by South Island poultrykeepers, was referred to the executive to take what action it thought best. Remits in regard to imported eggs, urging that a request he made to the Government to provide greater protection against imported eggs until such time as wheat for poultry could be admitted free of duty, or that the Government be asked 'to afford protection from imported eggs by way of a sliding scale tariff similar to the' wheat diify" or that the Government he requested to prohibit importation of eggs in shell during the currency of the present prohibitive tariff on wheat, were referred to tiie executive. The following motion was carried : "That until the pioposetl grading laws are effectively established the Government be asked to provide a subsidy on all eggs actually exported from New Zealand by the first week in November, either f.o.b. or on consignment." In lieu o'f remits urging compulsory grading, the following motion was passed: "Thai this conference approves of the principle of compulsory grading as soon as it, can practically be applied." A remit that the Government be asked to investigate the Control Hoard system operating in New South Wales, with a view to adopting it in New Zealand, was adopted. Remits were adopted in regard to egg-laying competitions, one of them being that the Government be asked to increase the subsidy to egg-laying contests to £2OO per annum. A remit that "'This meeting of delegates of the New Zealand Poultry Association adopt the utility standard as drawn iqi bv the conference in Wellington of North and Smith Island Poultry Associations, with the exception of the clause relating to white in the laic being made a cause of disqualification

for iill breeds except adult .Minorcas," wms adopted, and n I'errcd to tl tivo to take the necessary art inn. Poultry wearing sealed rings are to be allowed entry in poultry shows.