THE WHEAT MEDDLING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 14

THE WHEAT MEDDLING.

T0 TBI ISim 01 "TBtoiij^fcltfl Sir.—l hopo the decision «f nil dav's meeting is not going to b» i»SI ed as the opinion of fanneti m!§§ auertion of wheat control ft mjM to me suspiciously like a Lne, as Farmers' Union men Tnlwrf from every corner of the to the extent, as ono of tt »Iftjm in a letter to tho Editor «BMm2 Fress," of missing the Sb-fcjS sale. 1 understand that tkwTSSS 1500 wheat growers in W—t'TOSH and is it to go forth tfcat «TSI bunted up from far and near the views of those loOO? * If anything moro vera wanted i move, the incapacity of ta» »—- Union to run the "wheat h&Sm can bo found in some of the sMMfe made on Wednesday. LastscsanfH fixed the price of wheat at utaytiS of 6s 9d a bushel, an) tuun S% arithin a few weeks were t%4 *1 7s 3d. and a fow up to 7%3r Ym hieher prices would probmbh* l*»».2l throughout the year, as th£r im»fi than the cost of imDortcdfbMkjS the bungling and jockeying trol permits, and whic? fawtTMS caused a threat of floor bthfaTalS m at a reduced dutv in order *Twi tho price of wheat "down to tW ll price, settled the operators, tul > mined quiU? rightly that v|29 worth more. That was hutv»«r7j3 this year tho Union "offend" t|*<B rernment tho wheat at an fenSS 6s 6d for a crop that vaa mw harvested for another eight mSS and tho value of that vheafc <jb t033 market is. with the duty, Wtrwjfl bushel. Should theso tiro «&>«■ uot dotermino the Union* togafc«H the wheat business? Wh*n> IE3BI market jumped up, naturally tfe'JSl Tsland element in the fihraat 'mm time in dosing with theoCljuS doubt they grinned loudly at wI'SJKJ irrower "falling in." Bat HRH word from them about the kjt«H asked for the 192657 crop! ?Hj When the Government wifaAttßl to accept the May oSar ttevllfl should have withdrawn it «hSjB world conditions showed it FIkKB low. and so slipped oat of ta#«3B blunder. But instead they SeSO it. Having got deeper into tk»9 the Union should have whwriaa| onportunity provided by meeting to get out of the tMfS3§9 talk about the "scran of so much hot air. The Wednesday very snbstaiHaalrjp their May scrap of paper vitk|itf|9| inc a hair. They awed awß the fixing of this year'a ftJßJlls|| Wednesday they asked foe U«||nH control for three yearsl imH ture from the May reqoert ~w|lHß this dreadful German tUßgi|H which some of them proJeMjdjJaß Rut I cannot understand, thfrajH asking for a.price to ha %iSH the product is low. The pHefaH ment, if there is going t/> ha SfliffijSH naturally be upwards, and ]wH farmer is "left I '—he hat his wheat at Is to la 6d copt of imported wheat, aa M|9| last year. The time for to fix the price of a jßfodadtfjHH it is high—that ia» if $* HH is sillv enough to let natirral movement down*tyfc n, yHH the fanner the vinaat. the public and noise and to stick to a, yHM nrico was fixed downto&ftjlP Tlma^pl||i^H Wheat as wool—it is to do it weeks .afaaA'.JJMIP!MWaI dav that 'wcpwqr fm trajje to fall for am4li«|M he wai t«ln^^^^.fy^SßKS on its war olyrtMiagj^prfJlfT^ in acting how much opinion movement, could H/& circularise every ' IfffflPililßß done in any case complete list of the different have laboured to|!&P§&2!JSn9| of the 1993-26 &&MMtx&mm\ (2) Are you in a period of three fixed every DeoamharP OS^^M (3) Are yoa in kel and no control, 2d (the present_W;flHß ciently protective Here we wonld cat opinion which would t$ tion of the farmeta/ ter. As I said at do not want to be weren't when ▼ a °l' l ' ll lamb 6d—but on the 3"ifi9BH not want to be robbed. Thanking yoa for tta olimenting yoa. on the taken in helping the cTowers.—Yours, eta, JS^^M Grasslea, Weedona, Pf'jJfßßß 90 us znrxoa Sir,—ls it any land does not grow 8Q her, own a want of confldeltCß who are working rader of the Farmers 7 grow enough wheat and to sell outside or £1,000.000 in the to send it oat to 1>^ v other country; we woaN off if we had plenty of «gH country.—Yours, etov, to th« xonoa ev '^^mH^B Sir, —I'see in yottT :M tt^^^H statement at the recent once I was ""PP 08 ?* year they (the va * t get a good P*V* ai *Qjßßmmm omittedthe little word jf^^l finning of-the ig alteration. emphasise was this, crop is a failure, a big mean a profitable next year he gets a payable price haa forehand, there will ment for him to ***'?. t *J3 m mm ness. The whole a so-called "free sufficient wheat is ai drops below what is able one and the S •what he considers munerative. The sider it is absolutely should grow enough vMM^^^^H They are sure the 1 that supply and stabiMMHHH is for the Government *l for at least three 7* nual review of priota tives of aUputies business. The P 1 * 0 " now for the !9M6-g7 scheme fails, we wiD ~~^^BH be the beet solution present.—Yours, tj^^^H CSiairman, Methven *M^^^^^H