BRAN AND POLLARD.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10827, 26 March 1932, Page 1

BRAN AND POLLARD.

HELPING WHEAT GROWERS. The Wheat Marketing Board has issued the following statement: — “There appears to be a good deal of misunderstanding in regard to the recent increase In the' price of pollard and the public generally suppose that the recent Improvement in price means so much more profit, which accrues to the miller. This improvement only represents .a partial recovery from a disastrously low level brought about by the exceedingly low price at which Australian mill offals were being sold. “Under the scheme now operating for the stabilisation of milling wheat, the millers have agreed to grist for a much lower figure than has been conceded as fair and reasonable In the past, and all above the standard price received by the miller for pollard is returned to the wheatgrowers through a fund established for the purpose. Thus the wheatgrower, and not the miller, benefits from any increase. > - .

“Many consumers are not aware that pollard is admitted to New Zealand duty free, so the price asked is always regulated by free competition from Australia.”