PRICE OF WHEAT

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4472, 1 July 1930, Page 3

PRICE OF WHEAT

EFFECT ON POULTRY INDUSTRY. Auckland, June 28. The high prices of good whole fowl, wheal caused by the New Zealand sliding scale duty on importations of wheat is having a detrimental effect upon the'poultry imliislrv in the Dominion.

A number of poultry-keepers in the Auckland Province, including the owners of both small ami large unis, have been forced on account of the high values for wheat to give up their farms. The industry is not in a nourishing eondilou, and on a recent, ofifical estimate the cost • >l‘ fowl wheat to produce ;i (toj/.eii eggs was 1/2. •Prices for eggs are now decreasing, and it is feared that when values Call in September to about their lowest rate more poultrykeepers will he compelled to give up their farms. In November of last year the average wholesale price of eggs fell as low as 1/2 a. dozen. A representaive of a produce linn stated 10-dav that owing to its high price practically no Ait.*.Dalian wheat was bought by pm;,ay-keepers in New Zealand, Iml was used solely for milling. On Hie other hand, New Zealand milling wheat, owing in its high price compared with New Zealand fowl wheat, which was wheal rejected by the millers, was very rarely used in the poultry ini'us! ry.