WHEAT SUPPLIES
PREDICAMENT OF FIVE MILLS. REQUIREMENTS NOT FILLED. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, May 5. A complaint that five, free mills nor associated with Distributors, Ltd., were unable to secure supplies of wheat from the Wheat Purchase Board to meet the current season’s requirements was made at a meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce by Mr R. H. Webb, who said: “We want wheat. We can pay for it, but we cannot get
it.” The question was referred to the Produce Committee for investigation. Subsequently Mr R. McPherson, manager of the board, told a Press reporter that it was quite true a number of mills had been refused further supplies, but this was due to the fact that these mills had received all the wheat they were entitled to under the supply formula drawn up by the board shortly after its inception. This formula applied to Distributors, Ltd., as well as to the free mills. Mr McPherson deprecated any suggestion of the board’s action being prompted by a combine.
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Southland Times, Issue 22008, 6 May 1933, Page 10
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