DEAR WHEAT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20603, 30 June 1930, Page 12

DEAR WHEAT.

Sir, —At last someone has drawn attention to the wheat exported to" England last year by the southern farmers, and the Auckland merchant who gave his opinion in Saturday's issue is quite right. Does it seem right that One section of the community, the wheatgrowers, should be able to export their wheat away from New Zealand, in order to make the other section, the poultry farmers, pay for dear wheat ? Your merchant suggested that had the wheatgrowers' pool reduced the price of wheat for shipment to Auckland, by sixpence a bushel, instead of exporting it and losing money, the Auckland people would have been better off. That suggestion is very sound, because the southern wheatgrowers lost heavily on the shipment, and the extra prices they received for the balance, sold in New Zealand, did not make up for the loss on the exports. Would it not have been better to have given the. poultry farmers the reduction suggested, a big genuine reduction that would have meant such a lot to them last year when eggs were so low in price ? Here was an excellent opportunity for the wheatgrowers to assist their less fortunate poultry farming brethren, but, alas, they could not see past the end of the South Island, and were not concerned with what happened to the North Island man. Spectator.