THE CHAPMAN SACK

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20983, 11 March 1938, Page 6

THE CHAPMAN SACK

OFFICIAL TEST ARRANGED The heated controversy that has been waged for some time now on the capacity of the Chapman wheat sack is expected to be definite!}’ settled at an official test arranged by the New Zealand Standards Institute to take place on Friday, March 18. Tlie South Canterbury Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union, which has been one of the bodies most concerned about the merits of the sack, will consider at its next meeting a letter received from the Standards Institute advising of the test, and inviting the executive to send an official representative. The letter states that since the Institute decided to introduce the Chapman sack, in an effort to adopt a standard receptacle, conflicting reports had been received from a wide area on the capacity of the sack for New Zealandgrown wheat. The sack was really an introduction from Australia, and was at least definitely known to hold three bushels of Australian wheat, upon which basis, in the first place, the Institute had made its effort to have the sack adopted. In order to clarify the position, says the letter, it had been decided to hold an official test of the sack at the Wheat Committee's offices, in Christchurch, in the presence of representatives of affected interests, to arrive at a definite conclusion. Those invited would include Mr C. Morgan Williams, M.P. for Kaiapoi, Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union and representatives of the South Canterbury Provincial Executive of the Union, the North Canterbury executive, the Mid-Canter-bury executive, the Southland Farmers' Union, the Flour Millers' Association, the United Wheat-Growers' Association, the Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Association, Messrs MeKendrick Brothers, Ltd., Auckla ’. representing the sack importers, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the Canterbury Drivers’ Union, the General Labourers’ Union (Grain Store Workers’ branch), the Flourmill Employees' Union, the New Zealand Workers’ Union (Threshing Mill Workers’ branch), the Director of the Wheat Research I: stitute, Christchurch, and the Assistant Secretary of the Labour Department, Wellington.