POULTRY RUNS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 13

POULTRY RUNS.

Registration Bill Before Legislative Council. AMENDMENT MADE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Deoembep 8. In moving the second reading of the Poultry Runs Registration Bill in the Legislative Council to-day, the Hon R. Masters said the Bill gave poultrymen power to organise their own industry. At the present time the industry had no effective organisation and seemed to be lagging behind other primary industries. Owing to lack of organisation Opportunities for developing overseas markets were being lost. The lion D. Buddo said he could not see any objection to the Bill. The poultry industry was well worthy of being fostered. The lion C. J. Carrington said that all those with fifty birds or under should be exempted from payment ol registration lee, as the present exemption of twenty-five birds might cause hardship. The Hon M. Fagan said it was essential that all primary industries should be organised. If exemption were raised inanv of those who would benefit from the Bill would not be liable for fees. The Subsidy. Sir James Allen said the Bill provided for payment of a subsidy on the export of eggs, and as the subsidy would encourage export he thought there should be some safeguard for internal consumers. The Hon J. A. Hanan contended that the policy of subsidising exports should be controlled by the. Government. The Bill was read a second time. In committee on the motion of the Hon R. Masters, an amendment was adopted giving the Minister of Agriculture, instead of the New Zealand Poultry Board, the right to grant exemptions from fee^.

By another (government amendment the reimbursement of expenses incurred by the New Zealand Poultry Association in organising the industry before the commencement of the Act was limited to £SOO.

, Sir James Allen moved that subsidies on the export of eggs be paid only with the approval of the Minister of Agriculture. The Hon R. Masters accepted the amendment, which was adopted.

The Bill was put through its remaining stages and p^gsed.