WHEAT PRODUCTION
METHODS COMPARED. THE MYTHICAL SIX. • BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 15, 12.55 p.m. LONDON,- Jan. 14. Giving te vide nee before the Food Commission, Mr Hobley, principal wheat buyer for the Co-operative Wholesale Society’, referring to Canadian methods of delivering wheat from growers to elevators, said that bad system and late despatches from Canada tended to increase prices. He criticised the old-fashioned ideas of the Argentine growers and the wasteful system of bagging wheat. He urged that Indian wheat should he kept at a temperature in which weevil could not breed, as weevil destroyed . a great quantity. He'remarked tliat Australia was improving as a source of supply, since the Government had erected silos and made other arrangements, enabling their own country to got the bulk of the wheat and make usefuL economies.
Replying to Sir Auckland Gecldes, witness expressed the opinion that the six sinister figures who were said to control the importation of wheat into Britain were mythical.—Reuter.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19250115.2.57
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1925, Page 7
Word Count
161WHEAT PRODUCTION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1925, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in