STATE AND WHEAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 10

STATE AND WHEAT

INQUIRY ON INDUSTRY SELECT COMMITTEE CHOSEN (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Friday. Investigation of the needs of the wheat-growing industry in New Zealand is to be made by a Select Committee, the personnel of which was announced by the Hon. G. W. Forbes, Minister of Agriculture, today. The committee will consist of the following: Mr. Forbes, the lion. .T. G. Cobbe, Minister of Industries and Commerce, Messrs. D. Jones (Reform —Mid-Can-terbury), J. Bitchener (Reform —Waitaki), F. Waite (Reform —Clutha), C. Carr (Labour —Timaru), J. McCombs (Labour —Lyttelton), J. A. MacPlierson (Government —Oamaru), C. A. Wilkinson (Independent—Egmont), and IT. R. Jenkins (Government —Parnell). The committee is to report to the House as to (1) What are the advantages from a national standpoint of the policy of the Dominion being selfsupporting as far as its wheat requirements are concerned; (2) whether the wheatgrowers of the Dominion require protection or State assistance to enable them to market their product in competition with the importations from other countries; (3) what form of protection or State assistance, if any, would effect that object without unduly adding to the cost of wheat, flour, bread, fowl wheat and wheat offals to the users; (4) whether protection, if any, is required for the flourmilling industry; (5) whether the costs of baking and the distribution of bread to consumers are reasonable or otherwise.