GOVERNMENT PURCHASE OF 1917-18 WHEAT CROP.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 3, 20 September 1917, Page 177

GOVERNMENT PURCHASE OF 1917-18 WHEAT CROP.

The Government scheme for the purchase of the wheat crop of the ensuing season has been inaugurated by ■ regulations, gazetted- on 10th September, prohibiting, except under permit of the Board of Trade, all private purchases of such wheat. Nothing in the regulations, however, will apply to any retail’ purchase in a quantity not exceeding 50 bushels. . . A ' ' . Accompanying the regulations is an announcement by the Minister of Agriculture notifying that the New Zealand Government is prepared to purchase in any quantities wheat grown in New Zealand during the season 1917-18, at the price of ss. rod. per bushel delivered free on board in sacks at the nearest port ; or where delivery is made with the consent or by direction of the Government otherwise than free on board at the nearest port, then at a price equivalent as regards, the seller to ss. rod. free on board at the nearest port. “ Nearest port ” means the port of entry under the . Customs Act, 1913, nearest to the place at which the wheat is grown. No wheat will be so purchased by the Government unless it is good milling-wheat in good and merchantable order and condition.