The Dunedin Blur understands that some of the active grain niereliants of Dunedin, and also some of the movin''; spirits amongst the ■farmers, are endeavouring to have the evil of the forward selling of “paper oats" taken, up by the various branches "hif the Farmers’ Union throughout Otago, Southland, and Canterbury, it said that 15-.1,-000 saeks of those “paper oats” were gambled with last season, so the operations of I lie Auckland speculators are on a considerable seale. The evil Ims grown to sueh proportions that millers and shippers find it hazardous to collect stocks so long as the pernicious methods of the gamblers are allowed to continue, and unless something is done to cheek (his gambling there is a possibility that the established firms will operate only for hand-to-mouth requirements, thus paving the way for wild speculation and chaos —a slate of affairs that certainly would not be in the bona tide producers.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 3 July 1920, Page 1
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154Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2147, 3 July 1920, Page 1
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