DEAL IN WHEAT

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2546, 16 May 1922, Page 3

DEAL IN WHEAT

JAPANESE PURCHASERS Allegations of injustice by selling wheat to Japanese at a very low figure were made at the annual meeting of the Netherton branch of the Farmers’ Union last week. Mr T. Considine said it had come under his notice that high grade wheat had been sold at a fraction over 5/ per bushel to the Japanese Government. He maintained it was not fair that the public of New Zealand should be compelled to pay 4d per lb for bread while the Japanese wore obtaining the finest of wheat at such a low price. If there was any surplus wheat it should be distributed among those who won the war, but instead the poultry farmers under the Soldier Settlement Scheme were paying 7/ per bushel for wheat which was not half the value of that sold to the Japanese Government.