BRAN AND POLLARD.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 1

BRAN AND POLLARD.

STATEMENT BY MINISTER OK COMMERCE. WELLINGTON. August !!. Replying to question ill the Holts' el Representatives 10-da.v regarding ibe supply of bran and pollard through one firm in the South l-kind, llie lion W. !)■ u the Stewart said:

’fhe question, no doubt, reter- to the eeiupany known a- Distributor'. Ltd . whiili i- the -ole agent for the sale and distribution of the produets of a number. Lilt not all. ot the iloiir mill,.j the Dominion. Ihe o]»erations of this eomjiany are now the subject e. legal ])roeeedie..gs under the Commercial Trusts Ait. but there i- nothing i> -hew that the maximum price- of bra’ ami pollard as Used by Order-in-Coim-cil are I cing exceeded by the leiilel's or their agents. The resale prices o r New Zealand and of imported bran and pollard are not .-m-h a- to pive ground ter complaint, ami ample supplies >i both commuditics arc- available to usev* a.t prices ex-whart c-llinglou. wliK'-i alljw merchant agents no greater margin than the cemmi*sioii whielt i- re eeived from millers. When bran and pollard have t<> he taken through store a.t Wellington the cost i- necessarily increased, and when the sale' ate in relatively small quantities and on credit, prue- reach I-*)' per ton. les--2\ per cent, for pollard, and L, 1-“-les' per (out. for bran. The-e prn: - - e-, however, are exceptional, and much of ti e through store trade is done at lowoi- prices. The hulk of the trade however, is done into trucks at AYvL liugton ill plifOs of pppj'nxitl'ately’ for bran, anil £8 for pollard-