OUR WHEAT SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 8

OUR WHEAT SUPPLY

SUFFICIENT FOB OUR ,NEEDS. '-A drop in tlio-prico of wheat-and flour, ill New Zealand is reported.'- Discussing' this: topic. yesterday, tlio. Prime Minister said that the wheat'.prospects, were, very satisfactory. — "According to ftlio report which I lave had from;theßegistrar-General,"said .'Mr. Massoy, "I am satisfied' that there is sufficient wheat in New Zealand now to last until the new orop comes - in, unless the 'harvest, happens to bo very lata. In saying this, 1 know, of courso, as everyone else who has looked into ■tho subject must' know, that you can't ■finish up the old wheat one day and • :foegm to nso new wheat the next day. •'There must' be some, surplus carried over. If the supply is nearly exhausted. tvery serious inconvenience-will result. /■'i That was the position in which we-very nearly found ourselves, last arid .from which we were saved only by tho arrival of 100,000 bushels of wheat fromiNew South Wales. '■ ' "This drop in tho price of wheat :in New Zealand' is in sympathy with,, .the fall in price in Europe and land I presume that there' will ! b'e '."a : 'similar reduction all over the world. :"; ."Here we have now had'two tests— tho threshing-machine returns, and ' three. months later we have . taken the .wheat census. We intend to take another census-in October to; satisfy ourselves as time goes on' that our supiplies of food are sufficient for our-popu-fiation." '