AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20389, 21 April 1928, Page 14

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE

GRADING AND MARKING. BILL IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. (British Official Wireless.) (United Proas Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, April 19. Lieutenant-colonel W. E. Guinness (Minister of Agriculture) moved in the House of Commons the second reading of the Bill for grading and marketing of agricultural produce, which has already passed the House of Lords. He said it was proposed to start immediately with two branches of products. Schemes had already been developed for the marking of eggs, and had. been approved by the interests concerned. Different grades had also been worked out. for fruit, and a schem© for applying these grades had been provisionally agreed upon with the National Farmers’ Union. The Bill gave the Minister of Agriculture .power to define grades and prescribe the designation of marks. It was proposed that the use of th© marks. should be controlled oy ’ a national committee, which would oe advised by the trades’ committees representing the various commodities interested. Preserved and cold stored eggs would be marked as a protection for th© producers and the consumers of new laid eggs* The operation of such marketing would, be dependent upon an order being put into force for similar marking of foreign eggs. The second reading of the Bill was passed.