SHORTAGE OF POLLARD
GOVERNMENT CONTROL BLAMED POULTRY-KEEPERS’ POSITION (Peb United Press Association» WELLINGTON. Feb. 5. Unable to get supplies of pollard, many New Zealand poultry keepers, it is stated, may soon be forced drastically to reduce their flocks. This predicament is .made worse in many cases because *fiocks were recently enlarged in response to the Government’s appeal for increased production. The alternative feed, stock meal imported from Australia, in the opinion of poultry keepers, is unsuitable as well as too expensive. Cattle and pig farmers are also affected by the shortage of pollard. Wellington merchants have had practically no pollard for three months. Over the last year, they say. they have been able to obtain less than a quarter of their requirements. To-day there is not a bag to be obtained in Wellington and bran is also very scarce.
For the shortage the merchants blame Government control. If they had been left to operate free from State interference, they say. there would be sufficient supplies to-day
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 8
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