WHEAT FOR BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 224, 22 September 1925, Page 4

WHEAT FOR BRITAIN.

HALF A MILLION TONS. THE 'IT, A OF, WITH RUSSIA. (Itcccived '11.30 a.iul LONDON, September 21. 1 The. "Daily Mail" says one hundred vessels hmyo been chartered in London ' to trnn.-prn! half a million tons of Rus--ian wheat and barley on behalf of the ' I'.ritish Co-operative Wholesale Society, j whose purchase is designed to check ' -pcculative operations iv the Canadian crop.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) ' THE LOCAIi MARKET. MORE OPTIMISTIC VIEW. I An optimistic view of the prospects . for wheat in tbe Ashburton County is \ held by Mr. G. W. Lcadley (cbairman of - the Wheat Board). '. Interviewed in Christchurch last week, ; Mr. Leadley said that autumn-sown . wheat hnd been badly damaged in some • districts, but in others, such as his own \ (Elgin) it- bad got off lightly, and some . farmers hnd been able to rcsow areas . flooded out. A great deal depended, of -ourse, ou the class of soil. The bad weather, he continued, had certainly delayed spring sowing, but he ( would not admit that the position was as serious as had been made out in some quarter". He knew of one farmer who a season or two ago had not got his wheat in until October, and the yield was i flO bushels to the acre. Provided there was sufficient moisture and warmth later ' on to bring on the growth, wheat put in up tv tlio middle of nest month should give pood results. It was certainly taking a risk, but the risk was not so great as night be supposed. It depended on the Oil and on the weaither after the seed -as sown. CHICAGO MARKET. (Received 2.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 21. Cttica. o Wheat. —September, 51.52}; December, $1.52; May, §1.54 J. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)