STATE WHEAT CONTROL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 35, 5 November 1917, Page 4

STATE WHEAT CONTROL

ADVISORY COMMITTEE SET DP. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, November 3. It was decided by the Wheat Conferonce to-day that an advisory committee should be set up to act in conjunction with the controller, who will be appointed, in the controlling industries connected with wheat. Tho personnel of the committee is not complete, but it includes four representatives from each industry. The millers' representatives ore Messrs. Milligan (Timarui), Ireland (Oamaru), Bell (Auokland), and F. R. Corson (Christchuroh). Messrs. D. .'loncs, G. norrell, and J. Talbot were appointed a 6 tho farmers' representatives, and probably another member will be appointed to represent North Otago. Before the conference was concluded a motion was passed expressing appreciation of the courteous manner in which the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald had met tho conference and the delegates, and of tho able way in which he had smoothed out tho few difficulties that aroso. A motion was passed thanking the Board of Trado for the expedition it showed by preparing in three weeks a practicable and workablo schemo on a complex subjoct. It was deoided unanimously that in opinion of the conference the Board of Trado should bo entrusted with the duty of carrying out tho scheme to the end.