DOMINION WHEAT SUPPLY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1915, Page 6

DOMINION WHEAT SUPPLY

Per Press Association. • " Wellington, January 8. In a recently-prepared memorandum, Mr Fraser, Government statistician, reports on the subject of the wheat requirements of the Dominion. Taking the stocks as ascertained on 18th November last, he says the. Government importation during January and February, 1915, and an estimate for the current harvest, the wheat stocks 'in New Zealand will be exhausted by about the end of November, 1915. By about Bth September, 1915, the stocks would be below those of last ■November, which were twenty, per cent, less than the stocks of November, 1913. It would he inadvisable to allow the stocks to get below those of November last, and it will probably be necessary to arrange for importations Coming in from about the middle or beginning of September. If all stocks were freely marked.and the purchases did ont exceed the actual milling requirements, the necessity for importations would probably not arise so soon, but with the eeneral knowledge of a comparatively small and poor harvest, there will, no doubt, be a tendency to hold stocks back to counteract this. It might be advisable for the Government to import air.additional quantity of wheat about the end of February, 1915. -. . ~.,; . V 5., ; :