In conversation with a reporter, Mr E. W. Foster, Government Grader at Wellington, mentioned that this season shippers are having - considerable trouble with rejected grain. Large quantities of inferior quality out of country consignments continue to arrive for the different steamers, and some have usually to tie sent back to store, thus entailing extra expense to the growers. The wholj trouble, Mr Foster concluded, lay in the fact that farmers are threshing their grain • too soon, the wheat liot being in a suitable condition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2975, 22 March 1911, Page 58
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