“OUR DAILY BREAD”

Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 10

“OUR DAILY BREAD”

IMPROVED DUALITY EXPECTED CANADIAN WHEAT ARRIVES Dunedin bakers are joyful over the announcement that supplies of Canadian flour are again to be made available to them for mixing purposes. The Limerick has brought to Dunedin some 600 tons of Canadian wheat, which is to be gristed by the Crown Milling Company on behalf of the Government Wheat Committee. Allotments of Canadian wheat were also landed ex the Limerick at Auckland and Lyttelton. The object in bringing in Canadian wheat instead of flour is to stimulate employment. Interviewed this morning, the head of a large bakery concern said that the trade would be particularly gratified to know that it would be able to purchase as much Canadian flour as it desired. The price would be £l6 a ton as against £l3 12s paid for New Zealand flour and £l9 for flour bought in Canada. Some bakers, he thought, would be concerned as to whether the quality of the imported Canadian wheat would be up to the highest Canadian standard. He understood, however, that the imported wheat was proving satisfactory in Auckland. Bakers generally, he said, were anxious to get Canadian flour because of its higher baking score and higher gluten content. There was no doubt that the use of a percentage of Canadian flour in baking greatly improved the quality of the goods produced. Millers, on the other hand, seemed to be somewhat grieved over the fact that the gristing of the wheat had been entrusted to one mill, the distribution of the wheat amongst all of the mills being considered by some to be a more reasonable policy. When asked whether the millers would protest against the allocation of the .wheat to one mill, one prominent Dunedin miller said that such action seemed to be a waste of time. Correspondence, he said, concerning various adjustments desired by millers to the whole scheme of wheat and flour control, was being continually sent to the Minister (the Hon. D. 6. Sullivan) and to the Wheat Committee, but the discontented millers received little satisfaction. In fact, some millers would not complain to the Wheat Committee, ho said, because they were afraid of losing some of the business already allotted to them.