THE POULTRYMAN'S WHEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 7

THE POULTRYMAN'S WHEAT.

(To the Bdttor.) Sir. —As a poultry farmer the only way I can get wheat is from the Government in the following manner. Three bushels of oate at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6> per bushel to one bushel of wheat at ten shillings and threepence (10,3) per bushel. Considering that at the present time I can buy oats for live shrinks (">, ) per bushel I am indirectly payinsr seventeen shillings and ninepeiiL-e'lT'9 a bushel for wheat. If it were a fair price 1 would be quite : prepared to pay it for what wheat 1 j require, -but to have all these oats, forced on mc at such an outrageous | price so as to get a bit of wheat ie a I transaction the same Government, would not allow an Auckland merchant to perpetrate. Iβ what 1 have above stated an indirect way of fretting seventeen -hillings' and niiiepcace for the wheat': The poultry farmer must have wheat; by corner'inc it in this manner they have reduced "the supply of eggs, henoe_ the high price and a rise in the cost of living. 1 wish for my part that the Government would kindly leave the wheat; question alone thir. season, as far as the j poultry farmer is concerned. I do not' mind paying a fair price for wheat from ' the merchant, hut to have three trmee the quantity of oats forced on you that you have no i»e for is the greatest scandal any (iovernment hae ever perpetrated.—f am, etc., MANUREWA.