DUMPING OF FLOUR.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18906, 22 January 1927, Page 12

DUMPING OF FLOUR.

CONFERENCE ARRANGED. A conference of farming and commercial interests will be held in the Canterbury A. and P. rooms next Wednesday to discuss the wheat and flour question, and to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Minister for Customs (the Hon. Mr Downie Stewart) to nrote.st against tho dumping of Australian flour in the Dominion. Members of the North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and the A. and P. Association will represent tho farming interests at the conference, and delegates from the Chamber of Commerce have also been invited to attend. THE MILLERS' ATTITUDE. "We are leaving tho whole question to the farmers," was the reply of Mr F. R. Corson, manager of Distributors, Ltd., when a reporter asked him yesterday whether the flour millers could prove specific cases of dumping. "The price of flour affects wheat, and both tho millers and the farmers, but that's the stand the millers are taking." TICK INVASION. - IN POVERTY BAY. [THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, January 21. It was stated to-day by Dr. C. J. Keakes, Director-General of Agriculture, that the tick invasion discovered in Poverty Bay is limited to a small area in the Tolaga Bay district. The ticks -are of the same variety as those further north and though they have never been known to cause any sickness among cattle or as conveyers of disease, it is recognised that they are undesirable parasites and are capable of doing some damage to hides when in their present quantity. _ Accordingly a systematic effort is being ' made to. stamp them out. They are not the same as the tick in Queensland, which carries tho tick fever from animal to ani.-ial.