PRICES OF BARLEY
INCREASES ANNOUNCED GRADING STANDARDS TO BE AMENDED (From Our Own Parliamentary Reporter] WELLINGTON, This Day. The following increases in the prices of superior malting barley, No. 1 grade, were announced by the Minister of Agriculture; the Hon. W. Lee Martin, in the course of a statement today. For Central Otago 4>Sd per bushel on trucks, a similar increase being made in the case of Southland. The barley increase for the Canterbury and North Otago Districts amounts to lOld, and for the Marlborough and Nelson districts l\d, the latter applying to the pi'ice of grain in store. The new prices will be: Central Otago 5s 4Jd. Southland, Canterbury and North Otago 4s IOJd (both on trucks), and Marlborough and Nelson 4s 10]d (in store). The Minister also announced that the Ba.dey Advisory Committee had the matter of amending the grading standards for barley in hand.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 5
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