WHEAT GROWING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 December 1926, Page 10

WHEAT GROWING.

PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY FARMERS. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ASHBURTON, Dec. 2. Between seventy and eighty representatives of branches and provincial cx<?eutiv,es of the New Zealand v ariuei s Union, A. and P. associations and wheat growers in North, Mill and South Canterbury, met to-day to discuss problems in connection with the marketing of the new season s " heat crop The conference, winch was convened by the Mid-Canterbury executive of the union, was presided.over by tne president of that body. Air. J. Can. The Hon. O J. Hawken, who had been invited to attend, telegraphed that he thought it inadvisable for tne Government to be represented at hut lie would be ithid to lieui t*ie result of the conference. The Hon. W . No.sworthv advised' that he could not attend owing to a prior engagement, and the uncertain position in regard to the freezing industry Air. AY. AV. Alulholland outlined th<' problem as it* faced the growers to-dav 'l'hey would probably have between 7.000, OIK) and 8JX)0,(X)(> bushels o. wheat to be disposed of this coming season, and unless they had some means of handling the surplus they were' bound to see prices down below the economic value. Another aspect of the problem was the relative value of imported wheat and flour. This needed adjustment. The speaker referred to the proposed association of wheat growers. That would be concerned in the first place with obtaining information allowing members to deter mine the value of their wheat. Further, the association should have power to remove any surplus of wheat from the market. From the point of view of the country as well as of the wheat growers, it would be disastrous, if prices fell, say to 2s 6d, as the result of surplus. It would mean that the wheat crop the following year would fall by 50 per cent. 'lf they were to* solve the problems before them they had to make up their minds to a settled policy. Many aspects of the question were discussed by the conference, which sat from 11 a.m. to 5 p.in. Air G. \V_ Leadley moved, and Mr. AA T . T. Dill seconded: “That considering the'disparity in Australian flour quotations, viz., £ls 10s per ton, for local (Australian) consumption, s.s against £l2 per toil for export, tins meeting, representative of the wheat growers, views with considerable apprehension the effect upon our .local wheat ■Towing industry in New Zealand,'and respectfully urges upon the Government the necessity oi imposing ui embargo on flic importation <<! flour.’' On the suggestion of Air. Carpenter (Bangiora) a clause was added that the embargo be applied until the Now Zealand wheat was all sold. Air. L. A’. Talbot (Teuiuka) moved as ail amendment that the Goveiiment be asked to increase the duty on flour by £1 a ton, failing which the Government be asked to arrange a readjustment of the duties between wheat and flour. Mr. McMillan (North Canterbury) seconded, but the antednment was lost by a substantial majority, and on a show of hands the motion was carried. Mr. Talbot then moved that a grain growers’ association be formed to obtain reliable information concerning grain statistics and values, and the motion was carried with one dissentient.

Mr. It. T. McMillan moved and Air. ,T. McAnult.v (AJethveii) seconded, and it was decided : ‘‘T'liat in the even; of an embargo being refused we ask for an increase in the duty on flour by 2os a ton.”

The following deputation was appointed to place matters, before the Government: Messrs G. TV. Lead'w A. M. Carpenter, and J. Carr, with a 8011th Canterbury representative to be appointed later. The final motion carried was that a committee be unpointed to follow an the resolution, form a. wheat growers' organisation, to consist of one representative from each of the provincial farmers' union districts of Canterbury and Ashburton and tbe South Cante--bury A. and P. Association, such committee to have power to act as a wheat growers' executive and the North Can terbury executive to be the convenor SOUND HEALTHY SLEEP Assured by Marshall's Fospherine. There is no torment so apparently hopeless as insomnia. All night long the brain is active, goading to desperation nerves already exhausted. A few drops of Marshall’s Fospherine will immediately relieve the strain. "Marshall’s is a perfect nerve-food, supplying the phosphorous essential to their proper functioning. Don’t. let your system suffer from lack of phosphoric nourishment. Ask your chemist or store, to-dav, for the sixsided carton of Marshall’s Fospherine—--100 doses for 2s (id. If unable to easily procure*, write Proprietors, A. and \V. Baxter, of Baxter’s Lung Preserver, Christchurch.