§ 80. Captain DOWERasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will consider the advisability of taking steps to 542 ensure that chilled or cold-stored eggs, imported from Australia and South Africa, are sold as Empire chilled eggs and not Empire fresh eggs?
§ Major ELLIOTEggs imported from Australia and South Africa are marked with the name of the country of origin, which in itself indicates that they have been chilled or otherwise preserved.
§ Captain DOWERWill the Minister consider the fact that eggs imported from Australia are chilled for eight weeks, and are sold as fresh or new-laid, in spite of their having the name of the country of origin on them, while British eggs which, have been chilled for one week must be marked as chilled; and does he not think that that is rather a deceptive marking?
§ Major ELLIOTI cannot conceive that anyone could eat an egg eight weeks old without being aware of it.