A RECORD DEAL
AMERICAN FARM BOARD. When the American Farm Board arranged to barter 25,000,000 bushels oi wheat for 1,050,000 bags of Brazilian coffete, it made the biggest bartering transaction ever recorded. And then began a whole series of disputes, fino Argentine wheat-growers complained that the deal had spoilt one of their best markets, and the millers in the United States also complained. Their objections became more pointed when it became known that the Brazil Government. had imposed an embargo on imported flour, so closing that market. Then the shipowners protested. The carriage of the wheat, they said, would be done by British ships, and they wanted to know why. The Farm Board replied that it had no power over shipping because it bartered the wheat on tlie bfisis of delivery at American ports.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 6
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134A RECORD DEAL Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1931, Page 6
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