SOME EXCEPTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 8

SOME EXCEPTIONS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHKISTCHUKCH, This Day. The Wheat Purchase Board has decided to exempt from the regulations—(a) Wheat of tho 1932-33 season grown in the Nelson Province: (b) all wheat of the 1931-32 season; and (c)' wheat certified.as. seed wheat by the Department of "Agriculture in association with the Wheat Research Institute. . ■ , i .

It will be noted that prices have in view of the particularly large harvest been so arranged as to meet the pressing necessity that growers should defer tor some months the marketing of a substantial proportion of the crop, and the prices -offer inducement accordingly," states the board • The board's selling, prices for ary-March_ delivery been' fixed fl \- U tO- h" sacks extra (Lyttelton, Timaru, and Oamaru) and similar increments to those decided upon in respect of the board's buying prices will apply for the later months in regard to sales by the board. The estimated average cost of millers' supplies wJ be similar to that of last year, -the board's price for sacks, both 48m and 8d for once-used sacks thp w ViiT °f the fact that wlleat ftom the Marlborough province is already on the market,/special attention has been given to a prompt settlement of details, m that district. The board's buying prices f.o.b. at Blenheim will be the same as those in Canterbury and steps have, been taken to appoint merchant brokers in Marlborough to act fis the board's, agents in effecting purchases and sales.

In view of the immediate need for supplies: of wheat or fowl feed in the Wellington district the board has made necessary provision to enable shipments to be made from Marlborough. "Mr. B. McPherson has been appointed as manager for the board, and has already taken up duty, with the necessary staff."