ORDERLY MARKETING

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 6

ORDERLY MARKETING

THE WHEAT INDUSTRY. GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS. COMMITTEE SET UP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Industries and Commerce, announced to-day that the Government had decided to set up a wheat committee to function during the' 1935-36 season to ensure the orderly marketing of wheat, as has been the case during the past three years when the Wheat Purchase'Board was in control. Certain modiAcations have been made in the constitution of tho? committee as compared with t.he hoard, and a new departure is the appointment of “ free ” Hour millers’ representatives. The Minister of industries and commerce will be the chairman of the committee, and the previous chairman' of the Wheat Purchase Board, Mr Schmitt, secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce, will be deputy chairman. In addition to the “ free ” millers, s there will be ‘representatives of the South Island wheatgrowers and flourmillers and North Island wheatgrowers and Aourmillers. The committee will deal with the 1935-36 wheat crop along similar lines to those followed by the Wheat Purchase Board in the 1934-35 season, and in each of the two preceding seasons. Mr Sullivan emphasised that the Government had not yet had the opportunity of considering the question of control of the wheat industry, either in relation to its scheme of guaranteed prices or to Its policy concerning the operation of produce boards generally. Before next season, however, the Government would have ample time to consider its policy in regard to guaranteed prices, and the possible application of its scheme to the wheat'ind-ustry.