The Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918. WHEAT SALES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7672, 17 January 1918, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918. WHEAT SALES.

It is well that our readers should know the regulations under which tho wheat grown in New /Zealand may, bo dealt with and sold. It is a crime, iiiinislmblc under the Mar Act, foi a fanner to sell his wheat to any one who Is not a licensed broker. ’I hero is a minimum limitation; he may sell up to a hundred bushels, provided flic wheat is semi wheat. Mu smile. Mool regvilat ions wace Made, and the limiit of the spcculatoi bnver was HIWII h. ol wool. Me, know 1 hat we all desire to obey the hi\.v, Iml we also know- enough short, of Supreme Court,, evidence that l-h(Hwo<A regulation is like Aloham.med’s, eofl'm, between .Heaven and Earth. So far as I,lie; wheat regulation* are concerned, we do not. see that the, wheat speculator can got a possible chance. MV have (ho Now Zealand Gaz-cllc of December 22nd, with the full regulations, and our wish is to Interpret these for our farmer readers. The first point is'that they must not sell their wheat to any one e.xivpt ha is a licensed (iovernincnt broker. Thu farmer may for years gone by have .-tild to a particular miller, and that pui'deular inti lor may, have wished lo have this wheat for mixing pur- ; ! osrs, but lie must, not do, this any more, for the law says that the : miller cannot bo a direct buyer from . Hie grower, but only from 'the do- | vi-rniiveut broker. 'The prices fixed are tho prices free on board to the I port nearest to a seller's farm. There | are schedule rates for these prices, , and, therefore, (he price to bo paid to a TVinuka farmer will bo the .schedule rates, loss railage to Tinman. | The Gazette contains the. part-icu- . lars of 'two, Ordei's-in-Uouncil, dated j 22m! December, 1917, separately signed by the Clei»x of the Executive Council, ami y, 1 dealing with the '•heal, question. The first of those—and wliy tho both notices could not . have been treated as one we do not know —tells ns, that maximum prices 1 may be lixed los any class of goods )in New Zealand, and therefore the | preamble is proved (or including j wheat. ft defines, the dilTeivnce in j wheat, (lill'erentiating wheat inferior lo good ini Ilia/ wheat, good milling wheal, and machine-dressed seed wheat. M liy this 'Gazette notice should precede, the main notice on the wheat question is’ a question we would like Mr Massey or TIT- MacDonald to answer us. .It tells us that the fl rs fc-n ten t ionvxl of those kinds is to he regarded as 2d a ■ busheT loss in value than the ,secondclass, and that the third-class is to he regarded as oil a bushel, better ifian the second-class. 'That is- the whole gist in iho first of (he notices | in iho Gazette of’ December 22nd. | Iho second notice of the delibevnj lions of the Cabinet on the same

tlato and on the same subject is the iiotieo that is of .more interest to o.W funnel' readers. As we, have said previously, they must sell to a licensed •on eminent broker, li they do other \>ise, with the 100 bushel seed limitation, they place themselves ns criminals under the bar Act. They must md sell to their favourite millers or to the mercantile companies to whom thev may be uuder limmcial obligations, unless those, ■mercantile companies (millers arc absolutely barred bom buying oxce.pt . from brokers) are licensed Corernment brokers. Wo should imagine that all (he mercantile firms in South Canterbury will have registericd. themselves as brokers under these conditions'. (•nr rentiers for good milling "heat, sold for delivery, free on board at (he nearest port, will Set ~s HM a bushel during January, behriiurv, and March ; 5s KKUI in April ■ 5.s 1I cl in. May; 5 s 1 I t.d in dane ; (is in duly; (is (I'd in August ; and (is Id in or after! September. North Island nrowfi's oyt, ;i handicap of hi a busmd for smnr ic.’is'on, riot <!'\'p!ainc‘d in ih(* flji'/otto. Sacks have a maximum of Kb'.d. I’he broker gale, Kl) f ; , r as r;ul rear! (he Cazetle, ,fd a bushel as a buying commission, Jd a bushel us a selling commission, and payment of storage, if such is necessary, and lids payment must of course lie a mailer of mutual agreement. The re are regulations binding on Farmers and threshing-mill owners to notify the novermnellt a'i different periods of (he war of the. amount of "heat (hey hold, liiresheil or unihreshod, and in the, ease of mill'owners ot the amount of wheal limy have Ihi'eshed, Cur ropy of the (da/cite x\ ill 1m nvailalile a(. our oilier for perusal by aiiv of those who may be interested.