STANDARDISED MASH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22284, 20 March 1947, Page 3

STANDARDISED MASH

NO RELAXATION YET | (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 20. The difficulties facing the poultry j industry regarding feed supplies have . not yet finished. This was indicated by ( the assistant Director-General of Agri- i culture, Mr. R. B. Tennent, when lie officially opened a conference of the New Zealand registered poultry keepers j yesterday. Mr. Tennent reviewed the wheat : position and suggested that the corn- ; position of the standardised mash might , have to be altered. The world position regarding wheat, he said, was still very ■ serious and investigations were now ] going on to determine the best means of j distributing the wheat supply. The J tendency had been for New Zealand sj wheat acreage to drop, so the country | had to look overseas for supplies. New Zealand used approximately 12,000,000 bushels of wheat a year, and , of that 4,000,000 was used by the poul- j try industry. . i Negotiations with Australia and the 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 bushels produced j from the country’s own crop should see that the supply position was not as bad j as might be expected. “I can see no relaxation of the regu- | lations covering standardised mash, i said Mr. Tennent. If distribution was j to be ensured, the standardised mash | would have to be continued, and they i might have to consider a revision ol the j composition of that mash. If that were j clone it would be only out of dire : necessity.