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Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 14 May 1934, Page 4

There is a 'n i.i in Wellington to-day who has been trying for I he, last two months to buy 106,000 tons of wheat in Australia for a European buyei an J has been unsuccessful, although he has a bank guarantee for the full amount. Ho is Sir Benjamin Fu Icr, the wellknown theatrical figure, who arrived by the Wanganolla from Sydney on a brief business visit. “Two months ago I was commissioned by a friend of mine in Europe to buy 100,000 English tpr.-j of wheat, and I .blindly went into the market, expecting to buy like anybody else,’’ said Sir Benjamin. “I found, however, that there are as many difficulties in the buying of wheat as in the buying of motion picture films. The net result is that all I can get is a couple of parcels from Western Australia, amounting to about 3000 or 4000 tons.’’