WHEAT PRICES
U.S.A. EXPECTS RISE, CROP FAILURES. Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, June 16. Following reports that a wheat crop disaster is threatening the nortli-wesi ern area, an agitation, led by Sellutoi Walsh, of Montana, has opened for i. special session of Congress to give relief to the farmers of that district. Mr Stone, of the Farm Board, has admitted the losses to the wheat men in Montana and North Dakota would be heavy, but said that such losses would benefit the farmers in other areas. He also stated that the reports of a poor Canadian wheat crop and of a decreased acreage being planted in Australia and Argentina, would result in “the prices for the 1931 wheat crops beiijg much better.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1931, Page 5
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122WHEAT PRICES Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1931, Page 5
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