GRAIN PRICES.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of to-day’s cate your correspondent “ One Interested,” in pouring forth his complaint of the low prices offered for grain by the local buyers, suggests that the Farmers’ Co-operative Association should charter vessels for the purpose of finding out what ia the cost of sending wheat to the United Kingdom and sailing it. Heve they sot done so ? There are numbers of farmers who have shipped their wheat this season through the firm mentioned, with the result that the net return has been from threepence to six- | pence leas than they could have obtained f from the local buyers. Then, again, your 1 correspondent makes some rack statements \ about * the value of cats. At 28s per quarter of 3841 b shipped on a 85s freight (which is a low rate for cats), and after making the ’ necessary allowances for loss oa sacks, insurance, exchange and London commission, they give only a return of about 2s Id, f.0.b., Lyttelton.—l am, &c., ONE WHO SHIPPED.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10221, 15 December 1893, Page 2
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