THE FOOD COMMISSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5

THE FOOD COMMISSION.

WHEAT AND: FLOUR PRICESJ

NEW PROCLAMATION!t6%E« ISSUED. ,% >i~M

TJS7 TEI.KGRAPH— SJPRCIAL TO^ilt^^H WELLINGTON,- gfttflM iiie Food Commission ' will? go i^H ieco,ss for a time, but the Prime MwK ter informed your correspondent- thH it wnl he' kept alive, ready to dcH with any matter requiring attentio^H and meeting in any case at monthH intervals while the war lasts. "A special report has been receir^l relating mostly to 'wheat and flori9 continued Mr Massey, "and this-wH be considered by Cabinet and a neS pioclamation issued in a couple ~^| 'lays fresh action being necessary/*™ Asked if the Government's purchaiS of Australian wheat had all been.fciiuH ed in New Zealand, the Prime MmM tor said that three-fourths had arriv^H and he did not anticipate that, 9 Commonwealth Government would 4>ljfl ject to, the remainder being B ent awalH ! though th© situation in Australia^waH i not at all promising. -**^B 1 "What has been done by the Comfl mission in regard to other nereefl saries?" Mr Massey was asked,<tS which he replied that no action'tojM needed in connection with meat:->:^B soon as the Commission was requestjlgH o deal with the matter the stocifl yards were filled, and the difficul^H bich had prevailed in one part oftnfl county disappeared immediately." TfljM Cojamission had not reported upon S^J other commodities, such as drugs. ~/3]ijfl for the. freights difficulty, it waa-nojj so much the charges as the supply 101 l tonnage.,, said the Prime Minister. '-"--11H SOUTH ISLAND MAOHI CO3ST-3J TINGENT." '.. -^m WELLINGTON, Oct. l&M The southern contingent of the Maor^| expeditionary force arrived at Wellingfjfl ton to-day, and visited ParliameitM House under the guidance of Mr Piu||B ata. After the welcome in the ch~amlie|9 of the House of Representatives;^lii^B Massey met the contingent in the PHimpi Minister's room. He said the contingelffl^ would do credit to the native race,j«nf||l the Government and people'of th'e^D^ffl minion hoped they would have a gowifl time on the voyaga to Egypt. He im^a pressed upon them the nvalue of discij^J Mr Parata, repaying on behalf of\Si^ Maoris, said that the native race would!! have their eyes on their represe~nts£p tives in whatever part of the world they|| were sent to, and if they proved .eood| disciplinarians the|r people would }$$OJL proud of them, •" - The contingent leaves for the AtfcJcSj I land gamp to-night. - „