FOOD COMMISSION
LONDON, January 29. At the Food Commissiin, Earl Crawford, px-Clinirman of the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies, gave evidence. He said wheat could not he controlled alone. The control of air cereals must inevitably follow. The general control of the millers would he impossible. Ultimately 10,000 bakers and probably 100.000 retailers of flour would have to be controlled and compensated. He ’said that Government intervention would paralyse private initiative. A Government Buying Department would encourage speculators to raise prices. The suggestion that a Board should estimate the yield of wheat for three or five years ahead was fantastic. They often were at a loss to estimate bulks five weeks ahead. State action would he dangerous. Its effect on the Dominions would he infinite, and on India perhaps disastrous, while it would introduce a very dangerous source of friction in foreign relations.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1925, Page 2
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