BARLEY IMPORTS.
CONCERN IN MARLBOROUGH
Per Press Association. BLENHEIM. Jan. 20.
A strong objection to the importation of Australian feed barley when indications are that ample grain of this grade will be available from local crops was expressed at a meeting of the Blenheim Farmers’ Union. It was claimed by memliers that the Government gavo an assurance that before it authorised the importation of barley it would ascertain what New Zealand supplies would be available. As far as they were aware this inquiry had not l*een made in Marlborough, where tho partial failure of crops due to the erratic season had resulted in about half the yield being only second grade and fit for feed, not malt.
Tho opinions in the grain trade, it was stated, wore that Atari borough growers would have to accept as low as 2s (kl a bushel in order to compete against Australian barley, and that the price would not pay even labour costs. . . It was decided to ask the Minister of Industries and Commerce why ho did not ascertain tho quantity of feed barley likelv to b 6 available in Marlborough before permitting importation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 4
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