BARLEY SUPPLIES

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 6

BARLEY SUPPLIES

DOMINION PRODUCERS UNDERSOLD [Feom Oub Parliamentary Kepobtek.] WELLINGTON, August 4. ■1 'vo aspects of the question of barley production were presented to the House by Sir Healy (Wairau) in questions to Ministers. Ho asked the Prime Minister if it is the Government’s intention to impose a dumping duty on Australian barley imported for feed, pointing out that it had been reported that Australian barley was being brought into Auckland in large quantities which had been sold at Is Gd a bushel free on board, thus leaving Canterbury, Otago, and Marlborough growers with largo stocks which are unsaleable. To the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Healy put the suggestion that he should immediately investigate the largo difference in. the price of barley sold in Marlborough and retailed to the Waikato dairy farmers and pig and poultry raisers. The member stated that a Waikato dairy farmer on a recent visit to Marlborough found that he could purchase good feed barley at 2s a bushel, and the freight to Port Waikato or Taupiri was.lOd; yet the lowest quotation he could get in his own district was 4s, plus 10cT freight.