SUPPLIES OF WHEAT

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 660, 13 January 1933, Page 4

SUPPLIES OF WHEAT

Promise of Early Adjustment at Blenheim. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 12. According to a statement by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon R. Masters, the matter of releasing wheat for transport from Blenheim to Wellington will be satisfactorily adjusted in a day or two. The Minister declared that there was no acute shortage of wheat for poultry food in Wellington. “With regard to the position which has arisen relative to the shipment of wheat from Blenheim to Wellington,” said Mr Masters, “it will readily be understood that the Government, having decided to assist the wheat growing industry, and regulations having been gazetted, the Wheat Purchase Board could not allow indiscriminate sale of the new season’s wheat to take place and thus nullify the objects for which the board was appointed. The matter of the purchase of milling wheat from growers and resale to flourmillers now is a function of the board. The board has been meeting in Christchurch during the past few days. Its executive has been in communication with Marlborough grain merchants, and the matter of releasing wheat for transport to Wellington will be satisfactorily adjusted in the course of a day or two. It is true that some Wellington merchants depending on supplies coming forward during the last day or two from Blenheim are unable immediately to fulfil some orders on hand, but to infer that there is an acute shortage of wheat for poultry food in the Wellington district is to misrepresent the position.”