WHEAT OUTLOOK
0 “If we have an ear]y harvest, New Zealand will bo in no danger of a Hour shortage,” said the Chairman ffi the Board of Trade (Mr W. G. Mo Donald) in Christchurch on Tuesday. “If we have a late harvest there will bo a slight pinch, provided there are ao further importations of wheat.” During the war the consumption of wheat per head in New Zealand, as calculated by the Government Statistician, was*live and a-half bushels. This estimate is borne out by the actual quantities of wheat gristed since the Wheat Controller’s Office has been in existence. In the first year, beginning on Ist January, 1918, the mills gristed in runnel figures 6,300,000 bushels. The total amount in the following year was 6,400,000 bushels, when the population of the country wan? approximately 1,150,000. ‘ The Wheat estimates this year —after allowing for the quantity carried over from the previous season, 500,000 bushels; for the Australian importation of 1.850,000 bushels; and for tin' quantity Jit for milling bought by millers this year—that there is sufficient wheat, if it is evenly distributed throughout. New Zealand, to supply each person with the 5.5 bushels which the previous years’ figures prove to he the .actual requirement.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 16 October 1920, Page 7
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204WHEAT OUTLOOK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 16 October 1920, Page 7
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