ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.
By Aghicola. "Constant Reader" asks: "(1) How many bushels of wheat can a farmer sell to a private individual? (2) If noultrymen buy wheat (milling:), can the Government take it from them? (3) Are the millers allowed to charge 22s 6d per sack for rejected wheat?" (1) and (2) A farmer under the Government wheatpurchase scheme can sell good milling 1 wheat only to a miller through a licensed
Government broker (which practically includes any grain merchant who has catered for a period for the trade .and has entered into a bond with the Government). A farmer cannot sell fowl whe'at till a Government broker has condemned it as unfit for milling. The wheat, then becomes " free," and any purchaser other than through a licensed Government broker must furnish a return within seven days, showing from ■whom he purchased it, the quantity and the price. (3) The retail price has so far not been fixed, and probably varies, and in the case instanced by " Constant Reader" the miller poss.bly makes up his charge somewhat as follows —viz., a sack of wheat (three and one-third bushels), at 6s 6d a bushel, 21s 8d; sack, 10d; 22s 6d.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 8
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199ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 8
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