Plea for Wheat Users’ Council

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 222, 15 June 1932, Page 11

Plea for Wheat Users’ Council

Sir, —North Island wheat consumers will be glad of the opportunity of getting cheaper wheat even if only for a brief period. For once the wheat combination has run short of low-grade wheat it could sell at top grade prices, and consumers need not feel ungrateful if they rejoice. Mr. Forbes saj-s that the Government may allow importation of wheat "on such a basis as to deal fairly with the interests of all parties” As the wheat users are not consulted, ‘‘all parties” can only mean all parties interested in the production and selling of wheat. It was these parties that, after much trumpeting, accepted a reduction of 1/1 per bushel on wheat, and were so conscientious in fulfilling their promise that wheat is now dearer than before the reduction was made. There is urgent need of a North Island “wheat users’ council” to look after the interests of stock breeders and others wno object to using the refuse wheat of millers at prices three times its actual value. This North Island wheat users’ council would keep the balance on the see-saw board, against the Wheat Marketing Board. Recently a new body was formed whose chief purpose should have been to tackle energetically the wheat question as it affects the North Island. It has either caught the sleeping sickness or has tumbled over from its new cradle into its coffin of conformity and perpetual silence. A North Island wheat users’ council is a vital necessity.—l am, etc.. H. LEGER. Wereroa, June 11.