AUSTRALIAN WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT

"A OTIHICAI/SAIE." , Oiring to a statement having been made . that the Prime Minister (Mr. Hiisli-s) had sold to the Imperial Government the 1017-18 wheat wop (says "The Australasian" of July 20), the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) on Monday dispatched a cable message to Mr. Hughes, nskLng Mm .whether any sale had been efl'ecte<l. No official advice of anj important wheat 6ale has beeu received. At the conference of the Farmers and Settlors' Association of New South Wales last week it was stated that the sale of the 1917-18 crop to Great Britain at is. Bd. a, bushel f.o.b. had been reported, and that Mr. Hughee should have obtained se. 9d. Senator Kussell, chairman of the Australian Wheat Doard, stated on July 15 that although Mr. Gorman had informed the Farmers and Settlers' Association in Sydney that he had learned on good authority that 15,000,000 bushels of wheat had beon sold recently to Poru on a ss. fldi f.o.b. basis, the report was unfortunately incorrect. No sales wl-al-erer had been made lately to Peru, and, further, there had been no recent Bale of 15,000,000 bushels anywhere. Ho trusted that the expectations of yheat-growerd had. not been raised; unduly by tho announcement of-a mythical "sale.