HIGHER PRICE FOR MARQUIS WHEAT
ENCOURAGING SOWING OF BIGGER AREA (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 15. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) announced that because in the past an insufficient quantity of marquis wheat had been grown in New Zealand for blending with flour, the Wheat Committee and the New Zealand Flour Millers’ Society had made arrangements for the impoiiation and distribution of a quantity of specially selected seed from Canada. This was now being grown for seed purposes on selected North Canterbury farms under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture. In the meantime, to encourage the sowing of a bigger area of marquis this, spring, the Wheat Committee, by arrangement with the Flour Millers Society, had decided to pay for f.a.q. marquis, ex the 1940 harvest, sixpence a bushel more than the price paid for tuscan. The extra payment will in no way affect the price of flour.
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Southland Times, Issue 23897, 16 August 1939, Page 9
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