WOODVILLE & DISTRICT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 8

WOODVILLE & DISTRICT

NOTES. A reply to a resolution passed recentWatTmeeting of poultry-farmers m Southern Hawke's Bay asking Um WT eminent for cheaper Austral ,an fowl food for Dominion poultry koepe , been received from Mr K B. 1“ " rector of Primary Production. This states, inter alia: “The question, of ‘"porting under-grade wheat for gristing . n( j Zealand was investigated. It was • (® tcl y that the price would be . a J?P rO N \he £lO ' 15s per ton m; 'Wellington .if , gristing were done in New Z > about £9 5s in Auckland, if imported : - ready gristed. This price is no doubt, u satisfactory from your point of ' _ is felt that Australian bar ey at the> P sent price or North Island Cap , at 3* 6d per bushel to growers should be an economic proposition. -In .these cumstances I am afraid there is . that can be done immediately, though Wheat Committee has fhe position IL mind and is making investigations regarding supplies of wheat or wheat p ducts particularly.” , •»«-' On the occasion of the departuie of - Noel B. Hustwick. yesterday, repre-en-tntive citizen.s headed by the Mayor ( R. R. Johnston) met at tho railway station and joined with Mr and Mrs • H. Hustwick in wishing their son a successful career in the Royal Air I‘orco and a safe return to his native land, in the party were representatives ot Uic County Council, the Borough Council, Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Patriotic Society. Along with- the good wishes expressed, Mr Noel Hustwick w » the recipient of ft parcel of serviceable articles.