AUSTRALIAN WHEAT
j PROPOSED INCREASE IN PRICE. f, " (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) \ Austraiian-N Z. Cable Association.) Received Last Night, 7,30 o'clock. SYDNEY, Dec. 19. Tho Minister of Lands states that, in view of tho Now South Wales wheat crop providing hardly enough for seed purpose:*, grain will have to bo brought from other States. He foreshadowed an early increaso in tho price of wheat. Tho Board in Melbourne has decided that the prices throughout Australia should bo brought up to an approximate parity with those ruling outside tho Commonwealth. This will mean that millers and others will bo required to pay about 6s 6d and 7s per bushel.
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Wairarapa Age, 20 December 1919, Page 5
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