NEW SEASON’S WHEAT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11764, 26 February 1919, Page 4

NEW SEASON’S WHEAT.

PROTECTION OF MILLERS. Per Press Association. Wellington, February 2c, It is understood the millers have received practical assurance that the Government will take action to safeguard them in milling the new season’s wheat by granting a subsidy on floor. IE the price of flour is raised it will mean an increase in the price of bread. Tbe simplest way out of tbe difficulty is considered to be a subsidy. The Minister of Agriculture stated to-day that the Government was going to see that millers did not suffer an injustice in connection with the price Used for the nest season’s wheat. The price of flour was fixed last year at £ls 10s per ton, when wheat was costing 6s Id per bushel, whereas the Government guaranteed price for wheat this year is 6s 6d. It is stated to mean that the millers could not profitably sell this year at the present maximum price. The Minister Indicated that tbe urice of flour, and therefore of bread,' would not be raised, bnt he said Hint details of the arrangement which would be made by the Government could not yet be annoucued. There would be something in the nature of Government assistance to miliars