CONFERENCE OF MILLERS.
IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED. OHRISTCHURCH, December 20. A. conference between the Board of Trade and representative flour millers from different parts oi New Zealand was held to-day to discuss problems connected with the production of wheat and the manufacture oi flour. The proceedings were not open to the press. The following motion was unanimously adopted:—"That the efforts of the Government to encourage wheat growing be welcomed, and that the millers present approve of the outlines of the Board of Trade's scheme." The board's scheme is, briefly, to fix the price for wheat, flour, and bread during the period of the war, and for one season after. The Hon. W. D. -S. MacDonald telegraphed regretting his inability to attend the conference owing to heavy pressure of work in Wellington in connection with the wool business.
A sub-committee appointed by the millers, after considerable deliberation, formulated certain proposals, which were not divulged to the press, in which a series of prices for flour and broad were set out, based upon a sliding scale of wheat prices.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3276, 27 December 1916, Page 11
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