PRICE OF WHEAT
POULTRY-FARMERS COMPLAIIfI ; r . ! • .*v n CONSIDERED UNFAIR BURDEN^ . E l> [by telegraph—owx PALMERSTON, NORTH, Friday-Q Dissatisfaction with the high being charged to poultry-farmers for" wheat was expressed at a meeting con-'i venod by the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Poultry Producers' Federation. . A resolution was adopted:—"That poultry-farmers are finding it increase inglv difficult to produce eggs at current, prices, owing to the high cost of poultry foodstuffs, and that this meeting considers the Government taxes poultry-farmers by charging them tin 4 reasonably high prices' for Australian, wheat, in order that New ZeaUma' wheat-growers can obtain a high price for their product." It was considered "most unfarf that Australian milling wheat is being sold to millers at os Sd " a bushel, while ])Oultrv-keepers are being asked to pay 6s 4d for tho same wheat, the, difference apparently being retained by the Government to subsidise wheat-grow-ing." Attention was also drawn to the fact that both bran and pollard. we£e almost unprocurable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 9
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164PRICE OF WHEAT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23121, 20 August 1938, Page 9
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