POULTRY INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22071, 29 March 1935, Page 16

POULTRY INDUSTRY

PRODUCERS' ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES OF FEDERATION [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Thursday The organisation of the New Zealand Poultry Producers' Federation is at present proceeding, with a. view to the first Dominion conference being held toward the end of May. lho new hod> will take the place of the New Zealand Poultry Association and it is being formed at the wish of the New Zealand Poultry Board, which has been set up under the recent Act. This was explained by Mr. T. E. H. Evans, a mpmber of the board, at a gathering of poultry-keepers at Bromley Park, Tuakau, yesterday. Branches were being formed in the various localities throughout the Dominion. Each branch would appoint two delegates to be members of a district council, which, in turn woidd elect one representative to tho Dominion conference. The conference might set up a committee of four, be suggested, as a standing executive. _ _ The Dominion had been divided into districts each with about the same number of poultry-keepers. No. 1 district was the area north of Waitemata County, No. 2 was Waitemata County, No. 3 Manukau and Franklin Counties, No. 4 Hauraki Plains-Ohinemuri-Coro-mandol, No. 5 Bay of Plenty, and No. 6 Waikato and King Country. Each was to organise a district council, and meetings for the formation of the branches were in progress. District councils were already in operation in the South Island. The board, Mr. Eyans explained, was concerning itsel.c with the export of surplus eggs to keep the price level from becoming unreihimerativo during the flush of the season, with grading, with marking eggs going into coolers so that they would be distinguishable by the public from new laid, eggs, and w'ith obtaining poultry feed at a reasonable cost. Mr. Evans announced that the present of fowl wheat in New Zealand was being investigated by the board. The high price and the poor quality indicated that there was a shortage of wheat in the Dominion, and tbat the better quality fowl wheat was being used for milling. Sufficient data was not before tho board at its last meeting, but it was obtaining details for its next meeting to allow it to dccido whether or not the Government should be asked to suspend tho duty on fowl wheat, from' Australia. The gathering decided to form a branch of the federation for the Tuakau-Pokeno-Mercer area. Mr. L. Bal.kin was elected president, and Mr. G. Hemingway secretary.