N.I. Mills Will Take Some Surplus Wheat

Press, Volume C, Issue 29634, 3 October 1961, Page 16

N.I. Mills Will Take Some Surplus Wheat

(NX Proas AssoUatton) OAMARU, October 2. Wheatgrowers in the South Island will be given the opportunity of disposing of about 30,000 sacks of last season’s surplus wheat to the North Island. This is about double the quantity of surplus wheat held in North Otago but is only between one-sixth and one-seventh of the South Island surplus.,

By arrangement with the Wheat Committee, flour mills in Auckland and Mount Maunganui will be in the market for a restricted quantify of about 30,000 sacks of Soeth Island wheat The mills concerned— Bycroft, Ltd., Auckland. Northern Roller Milling Company, Auckland, and Mount Maunganui, and Ireland and Company, Mount Maunganui —are likely to draw wheat from Southland, North Otage and Canterbury. The Auckland mills will take about 30,000 sacks, and the Mount Maunganui mills 10,000 sacks. The mills will not consider inferior quality wheat, and will not take lines with a greater moisture content than 15.5 per cent. The shipment of some 90.000 sacks, according to a letter from the New Zealand Flour Millers’ Society, may be the forerunner of much larger Suantities being shipped to is North Island next year. At this stage of the season with some wheat still unsold in the South Island the

Wheat Committee had decided to open up the South Island to Auckland and Mount Maunganui mills to buy the quantity mentioned, said the general manager of the Wheat Committee, Mr L. C. Dunshea, last evening. The wheat would be bought by the northern mills unde' virtually the same conditions as South Island mills bought it They would be buying milling wheat. However, Mr Dunshea said it was feit that there were still channels in the Soutn Island to be filled—particularly feed channels. "I would say at this stage that the quantity of wheat handled for feed purposes by brokers of toe wheat Committee and returned to the committee is at least 100,000 sacks leas than purchases tor the whole of last year.” Mr Dunshea said that at least a month ago toe Quantity of wheat still unsold in the South Island was put at 175,000 sacks. It could be assumed that by now it would be something leas than that quantity.