WHEAT FOR THE EAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 5

WHEAT FOR THE EAST.

EXPORTS FROM NEW ZEALAND/ TWO BIG SHIPMENTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The extensive shipment of wheat about to be loaded at Lyttelton for the East in the Japanese steamer Tempaison Matu will be followed by another large shipment per the Canadian Scottish, which is now loading at Timaru, and will then come on to Lyttelton to complete. The Canadian Scottish’s allotment will bt approximately 5000 tons (about 60,006 sacks). This shipment is also for Japan, and with the Tempaison Maru’s cargo represents for that destination about 140,000 sacks. A small shipment or two had gone previously to England, and the total exported and now loading is approximately half a million bushels. The yields as they come to the Wheat Controller’s office continue to be much in advance of what was forecasted by farm* ers during the early part of the harvest. The latest figures are 31 bushels to ths acre, and as the later crops benefited mon by the weather than the earlier ones, the probabilities are that the returns will con* tinue good. Quite a number of 50 to 60 and up to 72- bushel returns have come tc hand, which substantially compensates foi the 15 to 20 bushel yields about which sc much was heard in the early part of the season. It is understood the demand for seed wheat is quite satisfactory so far, and indicates that, contrary to the general impression, there will be an average sowing.