IMPORTED BARLEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 4

IMPORTED BARLEY.

SOUTHERN FARMERS PROTEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. A strong objection to the importation oi frf t'w 11 UHcy when indications P e that ample grai» of this grade will from local crap/ was ex.aTTa - me f tin K of the Blenheim H nio 3i" Ifc 18 claimed by memr*™ .Government gave an assurance before it authorised the imnorha£bV f *> r1 ?/ , th&t h K f ,ew . Zealand sullies would be available. As tar as tihey are aware this inquiry was not made in Marlborough where a partial failure of the crops, due elra . t, . c J season, resulted in about half the yield being only second grade, ht !«' feed but not for malt. The opinion in tile grain trade, it was stated, was that the Marlborough growers will have to accept as low as 2,6 a bushel m order to compete against Australian barley, and that price wouldn't pav even labour costs. It was decided to ask the Minister of industries and Commerce why he did not ascertain the quantity of feed barley likely to be available in Marlborough before permitting importations.