WHEAT HARVEST.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. CHRISTCHTJRCH, October 12.
"If we have an early harvest New Zealand will be in no danger of a flour short* age," s_aid the chairman of the Board of Trade (Mr W. G. M'Donald) to-day. "If we have a late harvest there will be a slight pinch, are no further importations of wheat. During the war the consumption of wheat per head in NewZealand, as calculated by the Government Statistician was five bushels and a-half. This estimate is borne out by the actual quantities of wheat gristed since the wheat control office has been in existence. In the first year, beginning on January 1, 1918, the mills gristed in round figures 6,300,000 bushels. The total amount in the following year was 6,400,000 bushels, when the population of the country was approximately 1,150,000. The Wheat Controller estimate* this year, after allowing for the quantity carried over from the previous season (500,000 bushels), for an Australian importation of 1,850,000 bushels; and for the quantity fit for milling; bough 1 -, by the milja this year there is sufficient wheat, if it is evenly distributed throughout New Zealand, to supply each person with the 5.5 bushel* which previous years' figures prove to be the actual requirements.'
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Otago Witness, Issue 3475, 19 October 1920, Page 10
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