POULTRY PRODUCERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 4

POULTRY PRODUCERS

CONFERENCE CONCLUDED CONSIDERATION OF REMITS (Per Onited- I'be'ss Ass<.<iAno.N) WELLINGTON, June 27. The poultry producers' conference was concluded to-day. A remit was carried that the board should take action against registration defaulters after June 30. Several remits asked that the Government be urged to introduce a Stock Foods Bill next session. These were grouped and carried without discussion. A motion was carried that the board should endeavour to have legislation requiring an analysis of meat meal to h*'printed on the bags. Other remits, carried ask for the compulsory grading and inspection of all poultry for sale; an amendment of the law to have the theft of poultry punished in a similar manner to the theft of other live stock; increased export during the flush season; that the chief Government poultry instructor be sent to Australia to look into the export of eggs and table poultry; that the board be requested to export a month earlier; that the Government safeguard the industry against the evils of mass production by taking action to preserve the standard of breeding stock; that the board make a donation of two trophies, one for the South Island and one for the North Island, for competition for the best utility bird in a breed iu a poultry show. The conference recommended that the Department of Agriculture appoint a trained veterinarian to be attached to Wallaceville to devote his whole time to research.