GOOD STOCKS OF CORNSACKS
CONTROLLER’S STATEMENT There are. in New Zealand, sufficient cornsacks to meet the requirements of the 1943 harvest, and by the end of the year there will be a good surplus. This assurance was given by the Wheat and Flour Controller (Mr R. McPherson), when interviewed by “The Press” yesterday. 1 A recent census showed that 11,000 bales of new cornsacks were at present held in New Zealand, Mr McPherson said. In addition there was a very large accumulation of once-used and second-hand sacks suitable for holding grain. “The Wheat Committee alone holds 600,000 used sacks, and millers and merchants have about half a million more,” said Mr McPherson. “There will therefore not only be sufficient sacks to cover the requirements of the 1943 harvest, but a large reserve of sec-ond-hand sacks suitable for wheat.” A stock of nearly 2000 bales of new cornsacks—there are 250 to a bale—is also held by the Wheat Committee, making their total reserve about a million sacks, but with the supplies now available in the Dominion it is not expected that these reserves will have to be touched. Other reserves throughout the Dominion would be further augmented by the end of the year.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23746, 18 September 1942, Page 4
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