COULDN'T GET WHEAT

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 12

COULDN'T GET WHEAT

THEATRE MANAGER IN NEW ROLE LARGE ORDER UNFILLED [Feb United Press Association.] Wellington; Mayio. Sir Benjamin Fuller, who arrived from Sydney yesterday, stated • that when he returned to Sydney some two months ago with a commission from a friend in Europe to purchase on his behalf some hundred thousand English! tons of Australian wheat, he had found that there were so many difficulties in the way of obtaining it that he was still receiving cables asking where the wheat was. The only wheat he had been able to purchase had. been ■ a couple of cargoes from Western Australia amounting to three thousand or four thousand tons. . “ I could not even get a quote, ns said: “I made all possible inquiries from brokers, from wheat commissions* and from everyone else connected with the business, but I will give it up and pass the order on to someone else. - N»T PREPARED TD PAY PIMCE OR DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TD SET QUOTATIONS A SYDNEY REJOINDER. SYDNEY, May 10. - (Received May 10, at 2 p.m.) Mr G. W r alker, a member of a firm of wheat agents, replying to Sir Benjamin Fuller’s statement that he was unable to purchase wheat in Australia, said that possibly Sir Benjamin Fuller, had not been able to make the purchase because his overseas friends Tver® not prepared to pay the price demanded by the farmer, and doubtless ha was unable to obtain a quotation for Australian wheat because he did not know where to go to get one.