AUSTRALIAN.
I iUSTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ! FLOUR MILLS POSITION. (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 8. j Mr Dunn, Minister for Agriculture, ; referring to the flour mills explained there was no fayyur for gristing as that ! already supplied for local consumption 'over gristed and there were no orders j arriving from overseas to counter halj a lice except the Egyptian contract, the {New youth Wales portion of which will i shortly keep the mills at work. He i scouts t iic suggestion that a reduced (export rate will entail increased business as the quest ion ol freight to tinEast is the real stumbling block. America's rates being 35/- to L'2, as against £3 to £3 10s. from Australia. Furthermore Chinese' rice crops are no longer a failure and the Queensland harvest being in excess of requirements, the demand for New South AA’ales flour has < •proportionately declined and consequently there was the slackening of work in l the mills. I ]
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1921, Page 1
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162AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1921, Page 1
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