FOWL WHEAT

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1932, Page 2

FOWL WHEAT

PROTEST AGAINST IMPORTATION

BIG SUPPLY HELD IN STORE

TIMARU, August 23.

Consequent upon a proposal to import Australian fowl wheat to {he North Island, Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., lias despatched the following telegram 'to the. Prime Minister:— I “Mr John Bitohener joins with me an entering an emphatic protest against ;the Government even thinking of countenancing the importation of 'flow! .wheat, when our stores are overflowing frith fowl wheat of our own growing.

There are 38,600. sacks in-warehouses and farmers’ sheds in Sou(h Canterbury • alone, and much, of undergrade portion was moving off steadily at 4s 3 ( ] to 4s 8d nil til the recent agitation countenanced by the Government- began, since when sales have absolutely stopped. Ts that decent treatment to growers wlio have been knocked sideways by depression, drought, floods and an Auckland merchant class who are moving heaven and earth to cover their transactions ? The Auckland merchant class will soon have the satisfaction of turning evel-y South Island farmer into a confirmed and Convinced free trader, an f | then, in very fact, it will, be hands across-the straits. There are ample supplies of fowl wheat in the Dominion and there was no need to consider importations am til our own supplies were used up.”