News item. BC Egg Marketing Board cuts egg quota by 10 percent; cost of eggs increases by 3 cents a dozen. Footage shows how eggs are packaged at the Claremont Poultry Farm, Victoria, B.C.

News item. Claremont Poultry Ltd.: interior footage which shows how chickens are fed, watered and cooped up for maximum egg production. Shots of the largely automatic machinery which does the cleaning, size sorting and packaging of the eggs. A spokesman for Claremont says producers have provided the company with too many small and medium size eggs. The sale of these eggs will have to wait until there is a demand for them -- not a serious problem.

The item is a promotional film made 1945-1946. Poultry breeding in B.C. produces high-grade eggs for domestic and foreign markets. Shows the world's record shipment of eggs, when 33 million eggs were shipped from B.C. to Great Britain -- eggs being loaded onto a freighter at the Vancouver docks.

Instructional video. Doug Hamilton, poultry specialist with the BC Ministry of Agriculture, discusses the various stages of commercial egg production, from breeding and hatching to grading and packing.

This series contains records relating to the British Columbia coast egg marketing scheme election pursuant to order-in-council No. 905/1961. It includes a report of returning officer, a register of voters, ballots, and ballot counterfoils.