COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 3

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

WHEAT CONFERENCE. |BY TMLEOISACII —mil ft!ESS ASSOCIATION.] CIIEISTCMFItCII. February 27. Air G. Sheat moved the following remit, standing in I lie name of the North Canterbiiry- Executive oi the Farmers’ l nion :"I bat; ibis ( oiilcre nee is o 1 the op in lo n that laime i s cannot grow wheat next season at less than (Is for tuscan. (is -Id, n r huiu-eis. and Os 3d for pearl with I lie presell: rare of increments." .Mr Sheat said Hint there «;i- a danger of the growers falling hot ween t'-'o stools if they did not agree upon a reasonable price. He noticed growers were asking as much as < • a bushel, but he believed that, it they ji.-skod too much they might not gel anything The North Canterbury Executive had agreed upon Os. (i- Jd. mu. Os (id as reasonable price-, and lie believed they should agree In those prices. During the present season wheat growing had resulted in a loss ~!■ £] acre. That had been bis cx-periem-o and he was a < (insistent wheat grower. v[r (; \V. Lead!-, y said that toe growers were not out to exploit the public, lie considered that hv asking an unreasonable price, they " ' • doing their cause harm. All they v anted was a fair, reasonable price. sufficient to give them a im.mt on [heir work. Mr D Cameron (Norm Otago) n.o - ed an amendment :-“That _ the minimum price be not les stlian i - 1 K 1 hel." • The amendment was nepnt I'ci. ...

large minority. f /, w The motion was earned, mu. ■ ■ iocs being he'.nd. Ml . c. W. Leadley then moved “Thai as an inducement to fanners to produce wheat ... sufficient quantities to provide, the Dominion s reqni.ements tins Conference requests toGovernment, to issue an Oule, Council fixing the mnuiim. price to bo pan) for wheat of good mdlm 1' I'm- 10 fc> ! (TOT) HI ->S I<>l Hi- " qualitv ioi *,v i c r e- ul as 3d for hunters, nml ( ’/ 1 }°\ ■] ~11 t 0.11.1 and that me existing be c.nitinned with dutv and e-nbai go >< , within U days. The motion was agreed m \\as decided that .1 the P‘ c wel; not agreed to, Ute ContereiK-e U vie G’ He,, the position before the Cnr.’■ >l : ! the earlist possible moment. I,m - ‘ --l-od for would mean an The figures . A d U>u ()tl ,i„„r. increase ol abo u p) ■\ o increase soil'd *• * ■ G V„Mh 4 b loaf, it would he C C ° t tt 30s' increase would mean XtK Hke aHI ri~ i. the of , leaf. All these matters would quire consideration.