WHEAT SUPPLIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 9 January 1915, Page 8

WHEAT SUPPLIES.

HALF-A-MUiLION BUSH KLS IMPORTED. PRICE RAISED TO ITYE AND NIN'EPENCE. Cabinet ilecided on Thursday to make the price at which imported wheat will lie sold by the Government in tile near future 5s !)d per bushel (says the Dominion). This would mean, Mr Massev inform al a reporter, a loss to the Government of 'probably a little under sixpence per bushei. but the Government wished to keep the price of foodstnil's uown to a reasonable limit. It was -x----pecle(! (hat when the new crop came m and gave an increased supplv it would be possible to remove existing r • !..e----turns and let the ordinary law or sup- ', l.v and demand oncrate ■Mr Ma>sev slated that the shipments Horn abroad bought to the order'of the New Zealand Government totalled more than half a million bushels. The Moc-i-aki an-', the Manuka have alreadv conveyed to New Zealand from \;H nil-, some 1...0110 bushel, of wheat, whiel, 1,:,s all been .lisposed of in the Dominion. The Kaiapoi. silling froiu Svdnev to ainve i„ N,.> v Z, aland be- main perls on • laimarv 15 will brine a car.'o ~f lilt). WO bushels of wheat. ' Other ..teemers !e arrive and the fairies (],,..,. w ;]] ]„.;„„ are a-- follow;. -Niagara, uom Vaa" eouvor. due An-klnia! .lanuarv 11 M.fliVi bushei-; .Vaifemata. from Vaoeom.... dm- Wellington January 11. 12,0(10 husU'■ls: Hornelcn, from Vancouver, due Auckland (date not fixed) and main i;o"l--. 'C/iPO bushels; Hosperos, from St. •bdui, .]ue main ports second week in I.■braary. 252.000 bushels. Thus owing to Government inlervei-. taon rh.»r? is—apart from the rarr;'oeal". adv received from -Svdiioy—to arrive in New Zealand within the next few w..,.';s ,-,,, less a ouantitv than 51100" bu-hels ~r wheat. R v t j )r time the last cargo arrives the new wheat from the X"w '/■ aland harvest will he corning in The Prime Minister stated that the-c n evrv indication that next season the shortage of wheal will be even eTeator than it has lately been, though there is :i_ ebanee that in the erent"of Ausfralia's experiencins a <*ood season th * -borta-re in New Zealand mav be relieved, from that quarter