ON GREAT SCALE
BLACK MARKETING OF EGGS IN CANTERBURY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Black marketing of eggs has reached serious proportions in the Canterbury egg marketing district, according to the chairman of directors of the Central Egg Floor, Mr. C.. Ferguson. On a turnover of over one million dozen eggs in the twenty weeks to the end of December, the Central Floor showed a drop in supplies of 150.000 dozen eggs compared with the corresponding period of 1942. Those eggs, he said, were obviously being sold through illegal channels. Actually the extent of the black marketing, said Mr. Ferguson, was even greater, because eggs received in 1942 did not represent anything like the total that should have come through the Central Egg Floor. It was estimated that an additional 200,000 dozen eggs were not being mar - keted through the regulation channels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 4
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