FARM COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 24, 23 October 1918, Page 8

FARM COMMERCIAL

[' AUCTION SALES j FOBTHOOMING riXTUBES. ly .. TO-DAY. ; Ctakl Tarda, 1 p.m.-Stock sale (Abraham t i . and Williams, Dalgety and Co.). ' I 151 ; Lainbton Quay, 2 p.m.-Sale of house !. properties (A. L. Wihon and Co.). |.';'" TO-MOKROW. 'Chamber of Commerce, 'Wellington, 2.30 j ' - p!m.—House property sale (H. B. Lefghton and Co.). '' / •>:..;■ rapAY. ■ / illartinborough Yards, 12 noon.-Cattlo fair ■(Dalgety and Co.). ■ B7Fairview Crescent, Kelburn, 2 p.m.—Fur- !-.: niture sale (H. E. Letghton and Co.). by;'.' WHEAT STATISTICS ,:'•'' 'Last year two sets of wheat statistics :.'were collected. Thrashing returns were i. collected by the Government Wheat Constroller, in addition to those which have [' -l)een : obtained each year, sinco 1915 by the [Census and Statistics -Department. The return did not call for i information regarding the various classes I of wheat, and this information was reI quired in connection with Government j'-: control of ihe wheat trade. The'fur•p'liishing of two returns to separate DeI partmonta imposed unnecessary work on ! : 'tlie.' thr; shmg mill-owners, and it has pWn : decided that only one iform shall P.'+ie issuetl this, season. The form will h'-p'sk for-all.tho information required by jvth-J : two Departments. A regulation is lieingprepared io cover the point.