WHEAT COMMITTEE

Evening Star, Issue 22212, 14 December 1935, Page 14

WHEAT COMMITTEE

A NEW DEPARTURE “FREE" FLOURMILLERS* REPRESENTATIVES [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 14. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan announced to-day that the Government had decided to set up a Wheat Committee to function during the 1935-36 season to ensure orderly marketing as Had been the case during tho past three years when the Wheat Purchase Board was in control. Certain modifications had boon made in tho constitution of tho committee as compared with the board and a new departure was the appointment of “ free ” flour-millers’ representatives. The Minister of Industries and Commerce would bo tho chairman of tlie committee and the previous chairman of the Wheat Purchase Board, Mr Schmitt, secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, w'ould be the deputy-chairman. In addition to “ free ” millers, there would be representatives of the South Island wheat growers and flourmillers and of North Island wheatgrowers. The Flourmillers Committee would deal with the 1935-36 wheat crop along similar lines to those followed by the Wheat Purchase Board in the 1934-35 season and in each of the two preceding seasons. Mr Sullivan emphasised that the Government had not yet had an opportunity of considering the question of the control of the wheat industry either in relation to its scheme of guaranteed prices, or to its policy concerning the operation of produce boards generally. Before the next season the Government would have ample time to consider its policy in regard to guaranteed prices and the application of its scheme to the wheat industry.