TOO MUCH WHEAT.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. WINNIPEG, December 12. An international conference designed to draft a programme to relieve the glutted world grain markets and check the declining prices was opened to-day. Keprescntatives of Manitoba expressed disappointmcnt with Argentina's failure to send a delegation. Mr. .John Bracken, Premier of Manitoba. said it was liyt the purpose of the conference to draft resolutions to relieve the present world farm products situation, but to outline outstanding problems in such ;i manner as to facilitate a satisfactory permanent solution. Neither subsidies. <|iiotas nor curtailment of acreage appeared to offer any real solution. Canada faced a loss of s<).o<X>,<XN) dollars on this year's crop through the Government having pegged wheat at 80 cents.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 295, 14 December 1938, Page 8
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