CEREAL SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 4

CEREAL SUPPLIES

CONTROL EXTENDED

SHORTAGE NOT LIKELY

Regulations gazetted early tlMs morn- \ ing provide for the appointment of a j controller with power to regulate, restrict, control, or prohibit the> distribution of wheat, oats, bafley, pollard, bran? flour, or bread. The extension of control to barley aftd ofets would become necessary in the event of a shortage of wheat.

"The Government has controlled th-s, supply of wheat and flour ai»d fixed the price *ot bread in the ¥*st undet Board of Trade Regulations, but as bread is a vital foodstuff it has been considered advisable, in order to eft'1 sure that there is .no interruption of, supply in the present erpergency, to extend the field of control," says an official statement. "Under emergency, regulations which are riow in force a; controller has been appointed. Tfaej controller will work unfler instructions, from the Minister of SJupply and his authority extends to thb control of any products manufactured, from wheat, barley, or oats. ,•: ,

"Though it has beeci considered advisable to provide f c«; control right from the beginning, there is no shortage of wheat or flour -at present, nor is there likely to be such a shortage. For some time past, the Wheat Committee has been buiMiag up.stocks tof wheat for emergenqy tise awd there is today sufficient whesat in New; Zejd&na for all purposes (milling, fowl-wheat, and seed) to last tiß the end of KJarch, t 1940, without using any M. $h$ new1 crop, the harvesting of which/will aovfr mence in Jariuary.. As a very large area has been planted in > wheat this season, supplies are assured without imporiitions till at least end of 1940. iSißie; is, therefore, no <jceasion for tradefy \n wheat or flour to ialter ki any way their normal practice :as regards carrying stocks. It is quite unnecessary for housewives to gjet in extra' stocks of flour as there is »o prospect of a shortage and prices , are being controlled.'^ i ' -•■•■ :