SUPPLIES OF LINSEED.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1918, Page 4

SUPPLIES OF LINSEED.

-WATCHING THE TREND OF. PRISES ■ By Telegraph.-—Press Association. ! Wellington, Last Night. Tie Minister of Munitions and Sun* plies Ims been in communication # .the Indian-and Australian Governments, •with a riew to securing supplies o&3uh seed oil for use in New Zetland. The Director of Munitions at Mdbourne informed the New Zealand Gbr.crnmenfc.'that, .owing to the requiremente of the Commonwealth, the expo** ofr such oil manufactured in Australia, wonhl' need "to be>.restricted, and the «tjgges6btt was made that the distribution of Unseed oil should be controlled in tfayr Zealand, and prices fixed by the Board of Trade. The Minister stated that the position had been somewhat eased recently by the arrival of supplies direct' from India, although local demand could not be fully met The shortage of flßSpping precluded any certainty of wgular supplies being received from India. So long as iio oomphants were-made by the consumers that undue profits we being made by merchants, loth to interfere, but the Board Qf Trade' had been asked to watch the trm&ipil prices, and to take the if such -should be warranted.