HUGE WHEAT ORDERS STILL UNSHIPPED
A LOSS OF A MILLION IN INTEREST. , ; Adelaide, December 8. Senator RubsoU states that, under ; the Wheat Board, £60,000,000 has been paid to farmers. This was made pos- ; siblo by the Imperial purchase of , 3 700,000 tons of wheat, at 4s. 9d. per bushel. Tho transaction cost Great : Britain at least a million in interest, ; through her inability to transport tho ( ; wheat. Only one-sixth of the British and Allied purchases has boon shipped. , Not including tho present harvest, Aus- j tralia holds four million tons of wheat.- . —Press Assn. ' «. |
(The cable newe in this issue accredited i to the liondon "Times" las appeared in ; that Journal, but only where expressly • stated is euoh news tho editorial opinion ol "Tho Tlmflß,"> .- i
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 65, 10 December 1917, Page 5
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