Mr. F. MITCHELLasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he has considered stimuiating the establishment all over the country of egg-preserving stations equipped with silicate of soda tanks, which at a comparatively small cost would have an aggregate capacity of many millions of eggs and dispense with some measure of foreign egg importation?
Mr. WOODAs my hon. Friend is no doubt aware, the Ministry is undertaking a series of intensive investigations into the methods of marketing agricultural produce in this country, and as regards eggs, particular attention is being paid to the problems of preservation and storage. Before considering what further steps can usefully be taken in the matter, I propose to await the results of these inquiries, which are being pushed on as rapidly as possible.