EXPORT OF EGGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 6

EXPORT OF EGGS

NEW SEASON STARTING APPEAL BY INSTRUCTOR POSITION IN GISBORNE An appeal is being made to egg producers, both small and large, throughout the Dominion to support the expori of eggs to the United Kingdom. In Giaborne there is the difficulty of dispatching the eggs to a grading centre, and producers claim that, they can do nothing in the matter of export until a grading centre is established here or until quick and cheap transport can be provided to a grading port without undue harm to the eggs. The coming of the railway, it is felt by some, may overcome many of the present difficulties, but until then Oishorne mav have to absorb its own

The chief poultry instructor, Mr. 0. J. C. C'ussen. has contributed an article on the matter of export to the latest Journal of Agriculture, -which reached Gisliornc to-day, and states; — "During the spring of 1923 three shipments of eggs were exported from New Zealand to London. These wore the first shipments of any size from this country, and they were made more or less as an experiment to ascertain whether our fresh eggs could be successfully landed in London and sold at a profitable price. As is wall known, the eggs arrived in good condition and created a very favourable impression on that market, and practically every spring since eggs have been exported. "During last season some 11,91.5 cases (3;">7,3;j0 dozen) of eggs wore shipped to the United Kingdom, the provincial totals being:—Auckland, 78."00 dozen; Wellington, 5,730 dozen; Canterbury, 190,980 dozen; and Otago, 82.440 dozen.

"Although this number represents only about .'! per cent of the total number of eggs marketed in this Dominion, it is essential for the welfare of the industry that every effort be made to dispose of all our spring surplus, and also maintain the good reputation that New Zealand eggs have already made on the London markets.

"Preparations are now being made for this season's export, and although individual poultry-keepers may consider that, because their actual output is small, they cannot export, the export business is no concern of theirs. This is quite a mistake: the export; vitally concerns all producers as, although individually their output may not be largo, the whole production goes to create the surplus which makes export necessary, and thus export is as much the concern of the small producer as the large, and all eggs should he forwarded in the. most attractive manner."