WHEAT AND FLOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 11

WHEAT AND FLOUR

INDIAN IMPORTS HEAVY DUTIES IMPOSED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, March 31. The Indian Assembly passed the Wheat Bill, imposing a heavy duty on imported wheat, and two rupees per hundredweight on imported flour. CANADIAN GRAIN TRADE. AN EXPORT BOUNTY DUTY. OTTAWA, March 31, The payment of an export bounty duty by the Federal Government to stimulate the grain trade was brought up in the House of Commons by Mr A. M. Carmichael (Progressive). He said that at a meeting held at Glidden (Saskatchewan)' a resolution was passed calling on the Government to pay an export duty of 15 cents on wheat, 10 cents on rye, and 5 cents on oats. Had the Government, he asked, given consideration to this plan, or was there an alternative under consideration? The Prime Minister requested that the question be placed on the Order Paper. An answer would be given later, AMERICA’S HOLDINGS OF WHEAT. WASHINGTON, March 31. (Received April 1, at 5.5 p.m.) The Department of Agriculture reported that country mills and elevators on March 1 held 82,840,000 bushels of wheat, compared with 100,849,000 bushels a year before. THE CONFERENCE AT ROME. ROME, March 31. (Received April 1, at 11 p.m.) At the Wheat Conference Sir George Ferguson (Canada) moved that a meeting of all wheat exporting countries be called in order to organise exports on an international basis. The matter will be discussed at a plenary session tomorrow.