BREADSTUFFS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2394, 25 February 1915, Page 8

BREADSTUFFS

GOVERNMENT HIPORTS OVER HALF MILLION BUSHELS (Bj Telerraph.—Press Association J Auckland, February 2i. As a contribution to the bread supply of ■ Auckland province, 30,000 bushels of wheat, and 770 tons of flour loaded at Vancouver and San Francisco have been discharged at Auckland from ' the steamer Hornelen. The vessel sailed this evening for Wellington, the balance of her cargo of wheat and flour being reserved for distribution from Wellington. Half a million bushels of wheat purchased by, the Government have now reached the Dominion, the various shipments comprising the following quantities : —Waitemata, 11,000 bushels, from Vancouver; Niagara, 10,000 bushels, from Vancouver; Kaiapoi, 100,000 bushels, from Sydney - Hesperos, 286,000 bushels, from St. John, New Brunswick; Hornelen, 97,000 bushels from Vancouver. ' These shipments represent a total of 504,000 bushels, and a further supply of between 10,000 and 12,000 bushels, for which space ; was not available in the Hesperos, has been shipped froip St. John la the. steamer Borderdale, due to arrive at Auckland on-March 31.

■ The discharging of the Hornelen's wheat cargo was supervised by Mr. C. A. Maihieson, of the Department of Agriculture, on. behalf of ths Wheat Distribution-Committee. He stated that the wheat had arrived in a satisfactory condition. A email quantity had been damaged, and during the afternoon an examination was made by Mr. .Mathieson, Captain Plunket, Lloyd's surveyor, and the master of the steamer, Captain Peterson. " The suspicion that a leak had developed in the deck through the springing of a rivet was confirmed by watering the deck. The damage was connqed to a few sacks within an area of about.four feet square. v ,. The Auckland portion of the cargo has been distributed among three flour mills in the city. The .flour brought by the Hornelen is {Jalifornian produce, purchased about three months, ago. There are 770 tons for Auckland, about 600 tons for Wellington, 30 tons for Gisborae, and 10 tonß for New Plymouth. The bulk of the flour landed at Auckland has already been sold to bakers at prices equivalent to about £16 10s. per ton, delivered at their premises. The shipment for Wellington'will bo landed at a cost of £15 10b. per ton. . . i