WHEAT-QUESTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 2

WHEAT-QUESTION.

WILL SUPPLIES BE FORTH-

OOMING?

PRIME MINISTER NOW

SANGUINE.

The Prime Minister, who had been in communication, with tlio Wheat Board with rogard to the question of the wheat shortage, expressed himself to a Times reporter as sanguine that th<3 absolutely necessary wheat suppliers for the Dominion will be forthcoming". Well-informed persons had assured Mr Massoy that a considerably larger are.i of land would be .sown in the South Island this year than Jast, lut he had still been somowluit imeasy as to whether the would bo adequate to cany ijlio country over till the oarlie&t of tlu> new season's crop will be ■ available at the one! of February next. Frorifr (300,0(10 to 800.000 bushels of the last purchase of wheat from. Australia hatWyet to bo delivered; but, !in consequence of the scarcity of ; wheat in Melbourne and Sydney and drought prevailing •in many of 'tho Avhea-t-gi-owing are;is, it was feared that tho Commonwealth Government might be unable to fulfil its contract. The communications with the Wheat Board have, hovvfever,., tend'ocl f to dispel that fear.