NEXT SEASON’S PRICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 5

NEXT SEASON’S PRICE.

MINISTER’S MESSAGE. Per Press Asociation. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 23. It is probable that the price to be paid to fanners for wheat harvested in 1939 will be 5s a bushel f.o.b. This was foreshadowed by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, in a telegram to Mr H. F. Nicoll, president of United Wheatgrowers (N.Z.) Ltd., which held its annual conference to-day. In his telegraphed message the Minister said: “Kindly infor mthrough their delegates all wheatgrowers that the present conditions as well as facts recently disclosed by my personal investigation, give me solid reasons for believing that the price for the 1938-39 crop will be about the same as that recently announced for the coming harvest. I am making this announcement early in order that the wheat farmers may know in plenty of time what to expect and in doing so I express the hope that the acreage next year will be increased greatly and provide a sufficient yield for the Dominion’s full requirements during the year 1938-39. I realise that a much greater acreage would have been planted this year had it not been for the abnormally adverse weather conditions, the' detrimental results of which I saw personally when I recently inspected the wheat areas.” •

The Minister’s message was in reply to a resolution from the electoral committee of United Wheatgrowers (N.Z.) Ltd., thanking him for his efforts on behalf of the wheatgrowing industry and affirming its belief that the price fixed for 1938 was fair and reasonable, that the wheat and flour control scheme was the best yet devised and- admirable for its purpose; and that the short acreage sown this season was not due to any lack of effort on the part of the wheatgrowers. Messrs A. Craig (Clvdevale). R, T. McMillan (Inyell), and W. W. Mulholland (Darfield), retiring directors, were re-elected unopposed. Mr H. F. Nicholl was re-elected chairman.