FLOUR SHORTAGE
IMPORTATION FROM AUSTRALIA (Uu'.tid Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Thirty thousand tons of flour will have to be imported into New Zealand to tide the country over three months between the exhaustion of Dominion supplies and the placing on the market in March of the new season’s wheat. A miller stated that speaking in the House the Minister of Agriculture had stated that in his opinion one million bushels ot wheat were left in the 1 >omiiiK.'ii, hilt millers who had been on deavouring to secure slocks during the past, week were dubious about that figure. If the quantity stated by the Minister was in the country the millers had no need to close down if they had been prepared to make a loss on the price, which they would have had to pay for their wheat. There is still a little Australian wiieat coming in, most r?f it being on contracts made, previously. Millers are not likely to increase the price on the basis of the extra cost they might have to pay for wheat later.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1926, Page 5
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179FLOUR SHORTAGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 27 July 1926, Page 5
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