CANADIAN WHEAT

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 4

CANADIAN WHEAT

Average Cost Is 12/A Bushel (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON. Dec. 4. Replying to an urgent question in the House to-day on the landed cost of imported Canadian wheat and the price a bushel paid in Canada asked by Mr W. H. Gillespie (National, Hurunuit in conjunction with Mr W. A. Bodkin (National, Central Otago), the Minister of Industries and Commerce said the landed costs of Canadian wheat had varied according to quality and whether the shipments were partly in bulk or all bagged. Landed costs in New Zealand for individual shipments had ranged from 11/4 a bushel (bulk) to 12/9 (bagged) It was considered that 12/- a bushel would be a fair average as the landed cost. A total of 75,500 tons was received under mutual aid at no cost to the Dominion, and this quantity represented more than half of the 140,000 tons ordered from Canada. It would be seen, said Mr Sullivan, that the average landed cost, including the quantity received under mutual aid, would be something less than 6/a bushel. Concerning the price’a bushel paid in Canada, the f.o.b. price tp New Zealand had varied but mostly had been about 8/9 a bushel, New Zealand currency. It was understood tbe Canadian wheatgrower received about 7/New Zealand currency.