AVIATION IN BUSINESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 5

AVIATION IN BUSINESS.

COMPANY BUYS MACHINE

" MATTER OF EXPEDIENCY."

[BY TELEGRAM. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Monday.

The first aeroplane (o be owned by a commercial firm in New Zealand for exclusive use in the company's work was handed over to representatives of Messrs. Cadbury, Fry and Hudson, Limited, at the, Rorigotai aerodrome to-day. The machine is a Gipsy Moth. Mr. M. F. Luckie, the deputy-mayor, congratulated tlie firm on being the first to establish its own commercial air service in New Zealand.

Wing-Commander Grant Dalton, Director of Air Services, said it certainly was time that aviation was taken up more seriously in the Dominion. The only way to get about speedily in a mountainous country such as this was lo travel hv air.

Mr. Frank Campbell, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association, said that) it. had evidently been recognised that business could be got more quickly by air and so the firm had added an aeroplane to its equipment. Jt was the right spirit in the campaign to manufacture our own goods in our own country.

Mr. George Sara, director of Messrs. Cadbury, Fry and Hudson, Limited, said there had been some curiosity regarding, tho acquisition of the machine by the company. It was simply a matter of expediency. The horse and buggy were once tho means of transport, and now they had the train and car, but while continuing to make use of other means of transport, the company was determined to utilise the most rapid means when it suited. Mr. Luckie was the first to take a complimentary flight. Other flights were made later.

WORLD POULTRY CONGRESS

PRODUCTION OF EGGS

CHINESE COMPETITION

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON, April 4.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is putting forth a great deal of valuable information preparatory to the 4th World Poultry Congress, to bo held here in July. Hoping to stimulate homeproduction of eggs, the Ministry calls attention to certain outstanding Jacts disclosed in an official publication entitled "The Agricultural Output and Food Supplies of Great Britain." It is there stated that there is now a fairly extensive importation of liquid eggs, yofl{, albumen and dried eggs, and that this trade was practically non-existent before the wflr. Between 1905 and 1909 the value was not moio than £50,000 a year, taking the average of those five years, but since the war the receipts have mounted to upwards of half a million hundredweight annually, valued at nearly £3,000,000, and computed to represent about 750,000,000 eggs. These imports are received almost entirely from China, and may be said, to go into the secret service department of our egg supply. Is it not possible for the homo industry to enter the field, if the conclusion be justified from figures quoted above, that Chinese eggs fetch nearly a penny apiece ? The programme of papers to bo read by international authorities being prepared. Papers .will come ' under five heads:—(a) Breeding and incubation; (b) nutrition and rearing; (c) diseases and their control; (d) economics and marketing; (e) education and general—while in addition there will be several papers on rabbits.

Since tho resumption of diplomatic relations, the Soviet Government has accepted an invitation to be represented at the congress, a»d arrangements are being made whereby a national exhibit will be staged showing phases of poultry practice in Russia. Colonel D. A. Chaylor is to be tho New Zealand delegate at the congress.

VALUE OF WHITE BREAD.

IMPROVING THE NUTRIMENT,

Tho eighth annual London Baking Trade Exhibition opened by the Lord Mayor a few weeks ago, revealed, says the 1 imes, that tho public is still insistent in a demand for a pure white loaf. Hundreds of loaves entered in competition classes by bakers from all parts c.t the country were shown on racks in tho hall, but however brown the crust, the bread when cut.was clear white in colour. Tho judges •in making their awards give attention 'to tho colour of tho crumb, the texture of the loaf, and the crispness of the crust.

Students of food values have long contended that in striving for whiteness in flour and bread millers and bakers have sacrificed nutriment. The white loaf, it is-stated, is lacking inlvitamin B because of the elimination of tho germ of whole wheat. There is a movement now to restore tho vitamins to tho loaf without any appreciable darkening of: tho colour. As an. alternative to the use of wholemeaL flour, which has failed to achieve popularity, tho introduction of dried and concentrated brewers' yeast is being advocated. This gives a creamy white colour instead of a dead white, but it is claimed that tire bread is rich in its content of vitamin B and is more palatable and a much better food.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

INCREASE IN ORDERS,

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON, April 4.

All sections of the British Industries Fair have reported that they had more business than at the previous fair. A criterion of tho. success of tlio fair is that many of tho 2000 exhibitors in London and Birmingham have already asked for space for 1931. /Many of them want considerably increased space, and there have also been numerous applications from manufacturers who did not exhibit this year. Tho attendance figures for London were 205,800, as compared with 146.700 for tho pnvious year; and 150,000 for Birmingham, ai; compared with 120.000 in 1929.

Overseas buyers came from seventy countries, niado up as fallows: —Dominions and Colonies, l!j countries; Europe, 26; North, Central and South America, 13; Near and Far East, 8; and Africa (excluding British territories), 5 countries.