WORLD WHEAT SHORTAGE
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
London, August 18. • -i Mr. C. A. M'Curdy (I'aif.iamentary j Secretary to the War Office), in an inter- ' J view, said .that an. enormous.surplus in' i the world's supply of wheat'-did not exist.' Its supposed existence iras duo to miscalculations. Therefore the price would remain high. It would bo several. - years before the production of Central I Europe would reach the pre-war eealo., ' The lack of fertilisers had exhausted tflior land. ..Russia's contribution to the world's ■'! Supply would bo. negligible.—AuSL-N.fc* ' Cable Asm. ! . WHEAT PRICES FIXED. (Rcc. August 20, 1.10 a.m.) i ' London, August 10. riie _Whe.it Commission has fixed tlia following prices for imoorled wheat (per ' 480 lioniidfi)Canadian, 525. Gd. to GOs.; i American, Sis. to 605.; Australian, sound untreated, 615., treated GOs.; Argentine. - 59s.—Renter. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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131WORLD WHEAT SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 277, 19 August 1919, Page 7
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