DOMINION WHEATGROWERS
PRICE FOR 1934 SEASON INCREASE ON LAST YEAR (B$ Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Wheatgrowers will receive as an initial payment for the 1934 season 2d per bushel more than the amount of the corresponding payment last season. The price at which wheat will be sold to millers by the Wheat Purchase Board will remain as before, meaning that the board will have 3d a bushel' less with which to handle any surplus in the incoming season. The board lias 1,000,000 bushels surplus in store from last season, and that will have to he disposed of. North Island wheatgrowers have been brought into the purchase scheme for next year. 1
Until threshing commences it is difficult to estimate what this season’s surplus may be. Some exberts think that the yield may be from 30 to 34 bushels.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 6
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