FLOUR INSTEAD OF WHEAT
WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. Tlie Wlieat aiul Flour ('butrolleig I\lr. R. .McPliersoii, goes to Australia today to discuss with the Australian Governinent aiul Wlieat Board, mattevs related to the supplv of wlieat t'or New Zea land. ''There are still two miliion bnshels of wheat due for shijinient from Australia during 194()," said the .Minister of Bupjily, Hofi. D. (!. Sullivan, when inaUing the aiinouiieement, "but due td transp'orl jiroblems it has not been jiossible to bring tliis to the ports for sliipment. There is, however, surplus iiour at Australian flour ports and to obviate ihe possibility of a shortage in New Zealand, we have agreed, as a temporary measure, to take some flour instead of wlieat." Two ships which ileft rcceiifly td load wheat, he said, would now load iiour.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1946, Page 5
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