WHEAT PURCHASE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14960, 7 January 1919, Page 6

WHEAT PURCHASE.

' ■ WeHirigtOii,.Jaa. G. To-day. Cabinet cor^Aer^.i t.he ar¥augern"nt s;.f deini:-: .:-0i5?.p.-.i;j-,-' ;vift tho wheHt - pijr<;iif.;--.o1. .!■■■ j- under-a-od thnx -there is no materia; change is ihe proposal rh.'i.'do: .a..few weeks ---ago. ■ That was ,6a 6d a buslv>l for all good mil'lii-"-grades of wheat. . ~ ° A new development as to tho price ct j tins seamen's wheat iias occurred. The: Minister lor Agriculture has iiiformed Mr D. JoTi;-;, president of the North OanterbuTy Farmers' Union, that theprrce of 8s Gd per bushel is 'in the nature of. an offer only, and was not intended : as a definite pvono-ancoment. MY J ones' «ta ; ted that the wheat-grower;-: had made & counr.er-oiit.r to the Government of 6s ; lOd por bushoi. Tx? mntter would noiv bo considered by. Cabinet-. : -._—. i