WHEAT AND FLOUR
MARKETING IN NEW ZEALAND DEPUTATION TO PRIME MINISTER. GOVERNMENT ANXIOUS TO .STABILISE POSITION [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. A large deputation representative of the flourmillers, poultrymen, master bakers, and dairy farmers waited on the Primo Minister and the Minister of Agriculture to-day to discuss various phases of the wheat question. The proceedings were not open to the Press. Dairy farmers were interested in the matter from the point of view of offal supplies for cattle and pigs. The deputation asked that wheat should be. admitted to the country, free of duty, but urged that the duty of £3 per ton on flour should be retained. Subsequently the Minister of Agriculture stated ho had told the deputation that it was his desire to stabilise the position in regard to wheat and flour as soon as possible in order that the various interests concerned might be enabled to make future arrangements with a full knowledge of the situation. Cabinet, of course, had to lay down a policy, but the Government would go into the matter thoroughly and give an early reply.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 9
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183WHEAT AND FLOUR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 9
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