WHEAT RESEARCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 344, 3 May 1928, Page 13

WHEAT RESEARCH

LEVY ON FLOUR FARMERS’ UNION EXECUTIVE MEETS Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Details of the effort in Canterbury to carry out research in regard to wheat were placed before the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union to-day by Mr. Mulholland. He said the institute had been established, and a small levy was to be imposed on our, payable by millers and bakers. This was to be adjusted to make the payment about a penny a week for every bushel. The Government would give a subsidy of £ for £. The objects were to ‘improve the method of growing wheat in order to get the best possible our, and to go into the question of moles and other fungiin flour, The institute would also consider the difficulties arising in getting the right strength of flour, and making a good uniform loaf. The staff would consist of a chemist, the necessary assistants, and a cereal expert. Steps were also being taken to establish a laboratory. A resolution was passed recommending to the Meat Producers’ Board that a. commission be set up to inquire into the freezing industry. BRINGING FARMERS TOGETHER If the conference has done nothing else, it has had a fine effect in bringing the farming bodies into direct touch with one another, said the president, Mr. W. J. Poison in submitting his report on the National Industries Conference. Also, they had come into close touch with the Employers’ Federation, and had derived a great deal of benefit. Farmers had found that their ideas and those of the employers were not so very wide apart after all. He thought it was posisble for them to get a long way in agreement on important questions. Farmers might well consider ge'tting into closer touch with employers. There should be some central organisation of employers, in the same way as the workers had. The secretary said that two months ago he approached the branches in order to secure signatures to a petition to Parliament against the retention of daylight-saving. He had received a number of replies against the Act, and the petition would be presented.