WHEAT PURCHASE BOARD
PAYOUT TO GROWERS TOTAL OF OVER £200,000 (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. More than £200,000 will be distributed to the wheatgrowers of New Zealand by the Wheat Purchase Board, which has deemed to pay out Od a bushel on all milling wheat of the 1933 crop which it handled. No figures have been given by the board, but the total amount' handled last year is understood to be 8,000,000 bushels. The distribution will bring the price of the 1933 wheat to a minimum of os lOd a bushel to the grower ofr earlier deliveries cf Tuscan, and slightly move than 4s on an average over the whole year. Hunters are worth 2d and Pearl 4d' mere than Tuscan. Payment will be made within the next few weeks.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 April 1934, Page 4
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