BRAN AND BOLLARD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9874, 23 July 1923, Page 8

BRAN AND BOLLARD.

SHORTAGE .IN- AUCKLAND. (Perj-Ptess-Association.) V AUCKLAND, July 20. . A shortage,, in bran and pollard is reported, -the opinion has been expressed n interested. quarters that the Government should, lift the embargo placed upon Australian, supplies, and also remove, .the. duty., which amounts to £2 10s,.per tom Some weeks ago one firm obtained permission to import from Australia,.,but. although supplies are here so short, that merchants a e rationing out-.,thenv stocks, piactically by the bag, it-could, not take advantage of. the pliant, owing to the dutj. The* price .for.each, commodity in Australia is . about:. £.7- lfla per ton, and freight and.-other oliavges amount to about. £2vlos, v Thus; mth the duty, the landed price would be £l2 IPs, a prohibitive figure. Until the beginning ;of.:tho yean-supplies in hew Zealand were .plentiful, and export to Australia reached! seme dimensions. “The Government then closed down, said a merchant:yesterday, “hut it was too late. Tlie* result is that a surplus whicK,could have tided ) us over the present period’ was lost. ’ Asked ’the cause of the shortage, this authority said that the quantity used, particularly- of' bran, had increased as a result of ifarmers paying more attention to scientific feeding. I edigree

cattle nowadays were often stalled m winter;- and ? bran Avas a lieoessar.A ration under such conditions. 1? urtnei, many fariw v s- found it a very good plan to gr. 'iot bran mashes to coavs at calving. Poultry and pig-keepers, aaJio- usually- used 7 a good deal ot pollard, could ; fincT a-subs'itute at a pinch, but there Avas r.o sub: ‘"itute for bran. He admitted’that merer, ants now Avere not able to buy brail aii 1 pollard from the, mills as readily as t 'ey used to, bc-> cause bakers AA’hen buffing flour made it a-condition- that tl y must get<> proportion of bran ancl pollard, whichthey tuned over to storekeepers at ;a profit. This disposition of bakers to trade did not, however, reduce the supply-. If there were slocks in cite country, they were not held in Auckland', and the dairy farmers of •* theprovince- were suffering in consequence. One man stated that if Australian bran and pollard Avere alloAA'ed to come in, care Avould have to I>e exercised so that those who iioav hedd Noav Zealand stocks at £6.15s per ton for bran and £8 10s per ton for pollard Arqiil'd- not reap an undue profit, based; qm the landed prices of Australian. *•• •