SHIPMENT OF EGGS
FREE GIFT TO UNITED KINGDOM [United Press Association! WELLINGTON, This Day. Owing to difficulties in obtaining suitable shipping space only a limited quantity of eggs was exported to the United Kingdom this year, said the Ministry of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, in a statement to-day. Included in a recent shipment however, said the Minister, was a quantity of 20,000 eggs forwarded from producers as a free gift to the people of the United Kingdom. The gift of these eggs, which came chiefly from the Hawkes Bay district, was due mainly to the initiative and assistance of the Women’s Division and New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Women’s Institutes. The eggs will be handed by the New Zealand High Commissioner to the British authorities for free distribution among Reel Cross Societies, hospitals or other kindred institutions. The indications were, added Mr Nash, that many more eggs would have been forwarded by producers if suitable shipping space were available, but it is not now possible to export further gifts of eggs this season.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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175SHIPMENT OF EGGS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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