THE WHEAT CROP

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16149, 1 March 1918, Page 7

THE WHEAT CROP

<1 * ueim; realised. JIEETING QV WHEAT TRADE COMMITTED. £ meeting o'i t)ie Wheal Trade Committee was hold in Christchurch yeuerdav. Subsequently ..Mr W. G. McDonald, 'lie Governmeut Wheat Con- ' troller/gnve a "Press- reporter a resume of the \ number of points arising out of the interpretation of the regulations were dealt with. The? distribution of tho last Australian wheat crop was dccided upon, and the proportion which each of tho southern ports i> to get -was allotte:!. figures were submitted showing that teetotal New Zealand crop was approximately estimated at 7,800,000 bushels, and the actual threshing results to date shoived thai, the expectations wore being realised, and that there should bo enough wheal in the country for our own requirement. )Ir J. K- atersj(Bur;edin), as chairman of thfrvAtjvugery Committee, telegraphed to the Government a lcsolution passed by the committee urging that the Government s intentions in regard to tho price for the nest season's crop should he male Known. immediately; that if a price were decided upon there should be a differentiation for the different varieties; and that tho Government should again urgo upon the farmers, in view of the restrictions on shipping, for patriotic reasons to grow sufficient foodstuffs to feed tho population of the Dominion.