Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett

1951 Wicklow, Meeting of the County Committee of Agriculture

Source: Wicklow People, 30.06.1951

Miss Elizabeth Bobbett proposed that the Minister for Agriculture be requested to give a free market for the export of poultry in order to save the poultry industry from further decline. She believed that there were people who were getting out of poultry production at a fast rate, and that something would have to be done to save the situation. They had proof that there must have been good profits made on the export of poultry, when the extra 6d a dozen was granted for eggs before the election, which came out of a levy on the export of poultry. It did not come from the British Food Control. Since they got the free export on rabbits last autumn, producers had got very handsome prices for rabbits, and exporters must also derived profits, seeing that they had gone around the country buying up rabbits at those prices. They should look for the concession now so as to open up the market for the autumn and Christmas trade.

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Miss Bobbett said there was a free market now in Britain for poultry. If something were not done to save the poultry industry they would not have eggs at any price.

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This volume of Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s writings and speeches is divided into four parts. The first section comprises 321 texts written by her. The second part contains 150 speeches and statements by Bobbett, most of which were published in newspapers. Part 3 contains 727 texts written about Bobbett by contemporaries of her or addressed to her. Finally, Part 4 is a collection of 50 source texts that are important for understanding Elizabeth F. Bobbett’s activism. Parts 3 and 4 will be made available online in March 2027.

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Elizabeth Bobbett: Speech in Wicklow, Meeting of the County Committee of Agriculture, 1951, in: Peter Moser (ed.), In her own Words. The Writings of Elizabeth F. Bobbett (1898-1971). Farmer, Feminist and Public Figure, Bern, 2026, https://www.histoirerurale.ch/editions/pages/bobbett/1951-06-30-453.html, consulted on .

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