IMPORTED WHEAT

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 2

IMPORTED WHEAT

SHIPMENT FROM CANADA.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRISTCHURCH, August 11. When imported flour was found to be necessary for the use ot the bakers *? New Zeamnd, u ™ Ibe policy of the Government to import wh-at and not flour, so as to give more employment to the workers in New Zealand flour mills, and to provide more bran and pollard for poultrykeepers and pig breeders. • In making the above statement,! .- terday. the Minister ilpr Industries

and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) announced that the first portion of a purchase of 4000 tons of Canadian wheat had arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi. This wheat would be gristed into “straight” Canadian flour tor sale as such to the bakers for mixing purposes. It would be. gristed in certain selected and properly equipped mills in the following proportions: — North Island, 2800 tons, Christchurch 600 tons, Dunedin 600 tons. The mills

gristing this wheat were allowed, said the Minister, a conversion cost equal to what they would earn on Neiv Zealand wheat, and individually would obtain no benefit whatever through gristing Canadian wheat for the Wheat Committee. Their allocation of Now Zealand flour was reduced by the quantity of Canadian wheat they gristed into flour. Thus the extra trade occasioned by the milling of this wheat in New Zealand r.utomaticallv increased the trade to all New Zealand mills in proportion to their allocated output.