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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 5

TUB PRICK OF FUd'R. Mow is it thai with the harvest months away tin* price si' Hour is going dawn? If it is because wheat is coming, ink- tl»' market in larger quantities than usual, then it is apparent that the alii »(il shortage uf a few months ago was ft myth, anil that the (iovernmcnt lent itself to the exploitation of the people under tlie pretence of a shortage that never existed. The wheat crop in Xew Zealand in the year lftl.'l-U was 5,"23>1,7»;i bushels, and in the "Monthly AV stiw-t of Statistics" for July tile Government -Statistician stated that to July -JO '"the actual amount of wheat thre-lied was l/ii'liJHt) bushel;, in excess of farmers' estimate.'!. Where is the shortage? Upon what grounds ditJ the (.'overnment import wheat and fell it to millers at ft Kif-i? As a northern journal puts it: "fr" there had been no war we would not have heard a werd aiout wheat shortage in N>w Zealand. At the present moment, not only is there 110 absrtage, hut signs'are imt wanting that some people who have been holding back stocks from the market are fearful of burning their finger?. The whole of this wheat shortage business has been a, pallpable coimedy from the outset, and whether the Government was wise to what was in proire- or was blissfully ignorant of tho situation, it must he confessed that nothing .practical was done to protect the consumers." Tor influenza take Woods' Great I'c pomiut Cure. Never fails. Is Ad, 2s OA