ABOUT WHEAT

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 19 March 1923, Page 8

ABOUT WHEAT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HERALD.” Sir,— Pursuing “Hansard” to-day, I encountered tlie following paragraph. “A farmer at Heddon Bush had seven hundred hags of wheat which the Government would not buy, on the ground that it was second grade. But the farmer knew better than the \\ beatcontrol Board. He made first grade tlour from Uto wheat, sold it at ~ ton and also sold Ins pollara and i>ran. After lie had paid all expenses lie had a return tor Ins wheat ot os Jcl per bushel.” If the foregoing are l-. u .tc_and it is only fair to state that, the authority is only a. capitalistic* I'civspapor. onoted l>y ft Liberal -.1.1. tho idea at once is suggested why don’t whent-crowers establish a Co-operative Flour Mill f Next to State Flour Mills, operated by/ a department under a Government which believes in collective ownership and control, this appeals to mo as the most satisfactory '\ay °*- eliminating tlio crowd of middlemen who at present stand between piunary producers and consumers. I hat such a scheme is practicable, is proved by the fact that two co-operative companiesl have recently been formed m South Canterbury, to embark in an industry already enormously overcapitalised viz the meat expirtiug trade. If the articles of assoc: pop permit, why not transfer the L30..000 of the subscribed capital of the dornian£ company —the name of which I foiget—from its original purpose, to that or acquiring:, either by purchase, or l>c Indiding an up-to-date flour mill, equipped with the most medern machinery t It this were done, Distributers Ltd., would soon cease to he a menace to producers and consumers alike. — I am, ° tC ’ : GEO. T. ROLLER. March 18, 1923.