THE FLOUR SUPPLY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20076, 12 October 1920, Page 8

THE FLOUR SUPPLY.

WILL THERE BE A SHORTAGE? n ' re ) ,av ® an . early harvest, Now Zealand will be m no danger of u ibn'n i Suld the c “airman of the Board of Trade (Mr TV. G. 'M’DonRnl ?' C f, y ‘ “. lf wc have a late 1 nTfrt ler ° Wlll bG a sl ight pinch, 1 lovided there are no further importations of wheat.” During the war the consumption of wheat per head in New Zealand, as calculated by the Government Statistician, was five and) a half bushels, this estimate_ is borne out by the pctual.qnantities of wheat gristed since the Wheat Control Office has been in existence. In the first year, beginning on January 1, 1918, tho mills gristed, m round figures, 6,300,000 bushels. The total amount in the following year was 0,-100,000 bushels, vhen the population of the country was approximately 1,150,000. The Wheat Controller estimates that this year-after allowing for the quantity earned over from the previous season. 600,000 bushels, for the Australian importation of 1,850,000 bushels, and for the quantity fit for milling bought by the mills this year—there is sufficient wheat, if it is evenly, distributed throughout New Zealand, to supply each person with the 5.5 bushels winch the previous year’s figures jjrovo to be the actual requirements.