THE WHEAT DEAL
FARMERS SATISFIED WITH : PRICES;" Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister , for 1 Agriculture, in connection with the wheat deal, said the millers had purchased the same quantity as they had last year, viz., four million bushels. 'From the beginning of May the price had increased a halfpenny per bushel. The Government had given a guarantee to purchase any balance not purchased by. the millers up to the beginning of September. Under tho circumstances, ho could not understand why there should bo any trouble with respect to financial arrangements by farmers. He believed tho farmers were satisfied with the prices offered by the Government, and with the ordinary terms of guarantee that they would ho able to sell on the usual terms, and that if there was a surplus the Government would take it over. He felt that the prices offered by the Government for next year’s crop would ho sufficient to enable a reasonable area to he put under wheat. Apart altogether from patriotic .considerations, as far as he could gather, tho majority of the farmers were satisfied.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10296, 3 June 1919, Page 6
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187THE WHEAT DEAL New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10296, 3 June 1919, Page 6
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