THE WHEAT INDUSTRY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10384, 1 May 1925, Page 5

THE WHEAT INDUSTRY

PRICES FOR FUTURE CROPS..

A SECOND CONFERENCE.

MEETING NEXT WEEK.. Tho monthly meeting, of the Mid-Can-terbury Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union was'held this afternoon. The president, Mr John Brown, presided over a good attendance. The President stated that the meeting had been called as the outcome of the recent conference with the l millers in Wellington with regard 1 to the wheat question. They had promised to put the position that had arisen as the result of the conference, before members of the Union, and advised them to accept the prices agreed upon. Mr J. Carr, who attended the conference, outlined what had taken place at the meeting. He had been approached! by several farmers as to what was the best course to pursue, and he advised! them to sell. Of course, if they wished to still hold on to* their wheat they could do so.

The President said he considered! they had made a good deal. If they wished to have a further gamble they could 1 do so. It had been suggested that Ashburton should be the centre of a further meeting between the growers and millers to decide the' prices of wheat for the next three years. _ The millers would like to see' the prices arranged for a period of years. Next Thursday had been suggested as the most suitable date. He had taken it upon himself to invite theChairman of the Wheat Board to theconference, and the Executive would be better primed with facts upon 1 the cost of production. He still oon--sidered that a Marketing Association ■ should be formed, for it was just as ' important to growers of other farm, products that their interests in the 1 ? disposal of their produce should id* catered for.

Mr F. G. Evans congratulated the delegates to the conference upon the stand, they had taken in the matter 1 . He would like to see the scheme of the Marketing Association A motion to the effect that the delegates’ action be. heartily approved! and sanctioned, was carried. Mr Carr stated that he would give the Union £1 for every thousand bushels of wheat he held, and that was a good many, in recognition of the good results attained at the Wellington Conference.