BELOW WORLD PRICE

Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 8

BELOW WORLD PRICE

WHEAT DEAL WITH AUSTRALIA TAXPAYERS SUBSIDISING DOMINION'S BREAD SYDNEY, March 4. “ The Federal Government is floundering still more deeply in, its efforts to explain why the Australian taxpayers are being called upon to subsidise, to the tune of about £2,000,000 in the present year alone, the cost of bread in New Zealand, a ‘ Sydney Morning Herald 1 sub-leader states. “ Mr W. J. Scully said in last week’s debate that the. Wheat Board had b6en consulted throughout the deal. Now the former general manager declares that the board as such was not consulted at any stage.” The article then quotes the statement by the ex-mana-ger of the Wheat Board. “Mr Scully says that even if New Zealand had gained some minor monetary advantage from the agreement, no one with a real Australian outlook would object. But one would have to possess a New Zealand, not an Australian, outlook, the article adds, to appreciate: the beauties of an arrangement whereby this country _is providing Dominion consumers with wheat at about 8s 9d a bushel below the world price.”