Australia’s Compulsory Wheat Pool
MAY COST £30,000,000 MELBOURNE, March 17. Mr. Latham, leaden of the Federal Opposition, doubts the possibility of financing a compulsory 'wheat pool. He says that more than £30,000,000 "would be required to cover the two hundred million bushel crop aimed at by the Government. SYDNEY, March 17. Mr. Kilpatrick, a member of the Legislative Assembly, told a number of Wago farmers to-day that if a compulsory wheat pool were established the price for home consumption would probably be fixed at six shillings a bushel, or more. Questioned as to whether he thought the Federal Cabinet would allow tlio local consumer to bo charged two or three shillings more than the export price, ho said that the amount fixed by a special board of Commonwealth authorities would have nothing to do with it.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7170, 18 March 1930, Page 7
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