WHEAT OUTLOOK
"If we have an early harvest, New Zealand will be in no danger of a flour shortage," said the Chairman of the Board of Trade (Mr. W G. M'Donald) in Christchurch yesterday. "If we have a late harvest there_will be a slight pinch, provided there are no further importations of wheat." During the war the consumption of wheat per head in New Zealand, as calculated by the Government Statistician, was five and a-half bushels. This estimate is borne out by the actual quantities of wheat gristed since the Wheat Controller's Office has been in existence. In the first year, beginning on Ist January, 1918, the mills gristed in round figures 6,300,000 bushels. The total amount in the following year wa6 6,400,000 bushels, when the population- of the country was approximately 1,150 000. The Wheat Controller estimates this year—after allowing for the quantity carried over from the previous season, 600,000 bushels;'for the Australian importation of 1,850,000 bushels; and for the quantity fit for milling bought by'millars this year—that there is sufficient wheat, if it is evenly distributed throughout New Zealand, to supply each person with the 5.5 bushels which the previous years' figures prove to be the actual requirement. . .
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7
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200WHEAT OUTLOOK Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 90, 13 October 1920, Page 7
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