AUSTRALIA'S VAST WHEAT STORES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S VAST WHEAT STORES

SCHEME FOR RELEASE TO AMERICA AND CANADA. (Rec. January 30, 9.40 p.m.) Sydney, January 30. The "Wheat Conference has resolved to ask the Federal Government to approach tho Imperial authorities in an endeavour to get the United States_ to provide immediately all the shipping space possible for tho dispatch of Australian wheat to the United States and Canada, to enable the latter to make available an equal quantity from Uie Atlantic coast for the Allies.—Press Assn. Some idea of tho vast accumulation of wheat stocks which are being piled up in Australia may be gathered from the following paragraph in an Australian contemporary:—The wheat stacks along the railway lino at Goulburn are assuming enormous proportions, about' 1,362,000 bags being now under cover at the depot. Truckloads of last season's grain aro coming forward daily from the south, and the gangs are kept busy from daylight to dark. Tho men employed aro making good money, it being «uite a common thing for a lumper to collect .Go or more for his week's work. The whole of the 1916-17 wheat will lie placed at the Goulburn depot, and it is anticipated that about three million bags will eventually be deposited thorn. A large quantity of rejected grain is being sold for a more song, many local poultry-breeders securing parcels at ss. a bag. Weevil is present, ami so are mice,' but any rnferonce to these is discourased by those in authoritv. Nevertheless, the menace cannot be discounted. Construction rrangs are at work r>t Cook's Siding (a few miles south of Goulburn), and Murrav's Flats Cthreo or four miles f mm Goulburn. on the-Sydney rkM. "••Tore the foMndntior"; am fy>i«ir ln'VJ for fl, o s t„rt-„. n r tl<« IPIR W'tliin si month tl"> new ena.°mi'« wli«nt wi'l arrive, ond the w">'k o f stocking will tnen be be<;un at those depots. FUEL CRTSTS IN CANADA INTENSE STTPWPTvn TX BITTER WEATHER. Ottawa, January 2'J. There is intense suffering in Eastern Canadian and American cities owing to tho coal shortage. The temperature is below zero, and train services are badly disorganised.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.