NO WHEAT FOR GRISTING.
BOARD PREFERS TO EXPORT. BIG MIIX CLOSED Dews'. ■; i-j (Received 12.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, this day. ■ Barnes and Go.'s flour mills at War- ';* rick' has closed owing to inability to V obtain wheat at a price to coVer work- ."' ing expenses. Mr. Bameg "stated that though his firm was prepared to pay -above the export rates for wheat the . board preferred to export it. The stop- .. page is a serious blow to the district. The mill lias a gristing capacity of half a million bushels a year, and also possesses storage capacity for three hun-' dred' thousand bushels, or one-tenth-: of•vVthe Queensland crop.—j(AV and-N.Z.) •;
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 7
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107NO WHEAT FOR GRISTING. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 7
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