WHEAT PRODUCTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 7

WHEAT PRODUCTION

THE CANADIAN CONFERENCE NATIONAL ASPECT STRESSED. [ Australian Press Assn. 1 OTTAWA, June 6. The Wheat Conference delegates were the guests of the Canadian Club at Regina. Sir Thomas Allen, of the British Empire Marketing Board, stressed the

growing need of each section of the Empire for other Empire business. It must be of a reciprocal character. Visualising the Empire’s needs, the first conference should discuss a national programme of world production of all farm products and standardisation and uniformity of quality. The economic future of the Empire was bound up in the willingness and ability of the people in each part to organise greater production of higher quality standards on a national be*sis for effi cicncy in the prepared and finished commodities.

Alcssrs A. W. Golightly and John Oliver, English Co-operative Wholesale delegates, urged farmers to organise a Co-operative Wholesale Society. Mr Oliver advocated giving the co-opera-tive societies h chance to sell factory products, which the farmers must import. Air Peter Malcolm, Scottish co-opera-tive delegate, said that 60 per cent, of the people ate co-operative bread and wanted to deal with the co-operative societies. He asked: “Do you farmers, with vast resources and economic merchandising organisations, propose to destroy co-operative activities in Britain by putting the prices of products beyond our means?” The farraers answered in the negative.