EGG DISTRIBUTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24369, 3 September 1942, Page 2

EGG DISTRIBUTION

PROVINCIAL DEPOTS HEAVY DEMANDS TO MEET (O.C-) waNG.'-.NUI. Wednesday Plans for overcoming egg distribution problems by establishing receiving depots in country and provincial towns are being made by the Department of Agriculture, according to advice received by the Wanganui District Primarv Production Council to-day. The Director of the Fields Division. Mr. R. B. Tennent. in a letter, stated that the war situation had created exceptional demands on the Dominion's egg production. Supplies were needed for New Zealand's armed forces. Allied forces, and also for shipping requirements. These demands had coincided with an increased domestic consumption due mainly to increased purchasing power and "many women being engaged in war work. "At present these exceptional demands must be borne mainly by producers supplying the main centres, particularly Auckland and Wellington," Mr. Tennent added. "It is undoubtedly true that a number of country areas are at times adequately supplied with eggs when main centres are very bare. If countrv districts can be organised on a reasonable basis go that any surplus eggs be made available to main centres or priority demands the general position will be 'improved and the return to the producer maintained on a more stable basis than exists at present." The difficulty could be overcome It receiving depots were set up in main urban area*. Producers would be compelled to deliver eggs to a depot rather than direct to retailers, who could secure their normal requirements from depot*. Any surplus in eggs could be sent to main centres. BROADCASTING SERVICES TECHNICAL STAFFS MERGED FURTHER ECONOMIES IN VIEW Bv a decision of the War Cabinet, the technical branches of the National and Commercial Broadcasting Services are to be amalgamated, with the object of releasing the maximum number of radio technicians for war work, reports the Labour paper, the Standard. Mr. J. R. Smith, chief engineer of the National Service, will assume charge of the combined technical services, and the National Service will provide the transmitting and other technical requirements of the commercial side. In making this announcement, the Minister in Charge of Broadcasting, the Hon. D. Wilson, said consideration was being given to the elimination, for the duration of the war. of every superfluous function of broadcasting which would release further manpower. The fact that the Government intended to co-ordinate the two services to enable technicians to be released was mentioned publicly by the Minister in Wellington last December. This wou d be done, he said, without injuriously affecting the interests of listeners, althoush'the curtailment of sessions wa3 probable. MEN BEING RELEASED LABOUR FOR DAIRYING (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday The War Cabinet has promised that the services of 800 men will be made available to the dairying industry in New Zealand to meet the present shortage of labour, according to information received to-day from the president of the Taranaki Dairying and Farming Union of Employers, Mr. W. E. Scott. Taranaki's requirements are to be made available immediately and the War Cabinet has promised to arrange for the release from military camps of men applied for. s SHEARING WORKERS GOVERNMENTS DECISION (P.A.) CHEISTCHURCH, Wednesday Advice that the Government had approved the release from the Army of shearers, musterers, experienced shed hands and shearers' cooks for a period of approximately 12 weeks for the shearing was received by the North Canterbury District Council of Primary Production. District manpower officers have been instructed to release men from essential industries for shearing in all cases except where their work is of exceptional urgency. No men are to be released from overseas units and in the rase of men in key positions the Army is to have adequate time to effect replacements, one month being suggested. FISH TO BE DEARER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Owing to a reduction in fishing activities through war causes, the Price Tribunal has fixed the selling price oi lower priced fish in Auckland to encourage fishermen to market such_ fish. The prices affect gurnard, which is 9d per lb. whole and lOd filleted or smoked. Trevalli is 5d whole and lOd smoked, and fillets 9d smoked and unboned. FIRE IN FOREST AREA (0.C.) ROTOEUA, Wednesday For lighting a fire in a State forest area without permission, Hoeta K. Wall was fined £2 in Rotorua. The police said that defendant, who was a forestry worker, had been passing through the area when his dog had caught a pig. He had lit a fire to singe it, and had put the fire out afterward. £SOOO FOR CHINESE fP.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Announcing to-night that on behall of the people of New Zealand the Government had approved a further grant of £SOOO to the Chinese Red Cross, the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said he had received a letter from Mr. Wang Feng, Consul-General for Republican China, expressing deep gratitude for the further magnificent contribution toward the relief of the sufferings which his countrymen were experiencing in the struggle against aggrefiiiou.