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WHEAT RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
WHO PAYS FOR MAINTENANCE?
(To the Editor.) - Sir,—The chairman of the Wheat Research Institute is reported ,in a- paragraph in last Friday’s Daily News a* having stated that although ’ there are similar institutions in most countries the position in New Zealand was unique, in that the necessary funds .for ’ its maintenance were provided' by the wheatgrowers, fiourmillers and - bakers combined. He omitted to add that the unfortunate consumers had to carry a large share of the burdem In an issue of your paper published in May, 1932, is contained’ a summary of the first annual report, of the workings of the Institute in New-Zealand; After specifying the various levies, on the grower, miller and baker," these ’ levies being fixed by Act of Parliament, the report adds: “The levies,’which'amount to about £2250 per annum, are subsidised pound for pound by the Government.” The word “about” seems to allow con. siderable margin on which to come anV go.—l am, etc., H.M. Manaia, Sept. 25.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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