HOME-GROWN WHEAT.
GUARANTEE TO GROWERS.
LONDON, June 17.
In the House of Commons, on a resolution authorising the payment of expenses in connection with the Agriculture Bill, Sir A. Griffith Boscawen (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture) state:! that Cabinet had decided that the maximum price of home-grown wheat for the 1920 harvest should remain at 95s per quarter. The arrangement that the maximum price for 1921 would be .100s per quarter would be cancelled, and the farmer would receive for home-grown wheat an amount equal to the avor _ge c.i.f. price of imported wheat of similar or comparable quality. The assured guarantee for wheat w*as 68s, and for oats 4Gs. He could not estimate the probable cost, but the guarantee was well worth the cost in the nation's interest. —Reuter.
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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1920, Page 5
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