A PROMISING PROSPECT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2013, 27 February 1890, Page 3

A PROMISING PROSPECT.

“ Anglo- A ustraliaa ” writes as follows: At last the faint-hearted and half-doubting Antipodean wheat exporter has entered the home market here for the season as a competitive seller at about 85s 6d, and I understand that good business is being done. I have already expressed the decided opinion, based on expert testimony here, that Australia and New Zealand have both great opportunity before them, if only they will make a special study of the real requirements of the English market for both grain and flour. There is, I happen to know, much agitation in the trades both of bakers and millers. Tbe former are rapidly rising, through various technically educating agencies, and as a result they find that tbe millers’ interests are not exactly harmonious with what they deem their own. The great demand of the baker here who is at all “ advanced ” is for what is called single milled wheat flour. That is flour made from one kind of wheat only- Now this is exactly the flour that the Australian and New Zealand millers do supply, and hence Antipodean flours are quite as popular, as far as they go, as American importations. If Australian millers would only take the hint, they might much improve on this demand. They should not only send large censignments of flour, but they should, in conjunction with Australian agriculturists, have different varieties of wheat raised, and mill these separately, and then consign to the bakers of the United Kingdom a regular assortment of fine flours which the baker could “ blend ” as he deemed most desirable. As I write this, the sailing ship Dynomene has just left Liverpool, having on board nearly a hundred tons of roller milling plant for Sydney. I would add that I have peculiar advantages for getting at the very inner workings of both the milling and the baking trade, and I again say Australia has a splendid trade opportunity before her.