WHEAT TRADE
HANDLING OF 1939 CROP. QUESTION OF REGULATIONS. The general manager of the Wheat Committee visited Masterton yesterday for a conference with the local grain merchants with regard to the handling ci' wheat of the 1939 crop. Mr McPherson stated that the price to be paid to growers would be the sane as for the 1938 harvest. He mad.'.' it quite clear to the brokers that the Board of Trade (Wheat and Flour) Regulations prohibited any grower from selling his milling wheat except to the Wheat Committee through a licensed broker. He also pointed out that it was an offence for any person to purchase milling wheat from a grower without, a Wheat Purchase Warrant, issued by the Wheat Committee. A slight exception was that under the regulations the total amount which might be sold by any one grower in any one season Outside the regulations was limited to 100 bushels (30 sacks). The total quantity which might be bought by any one person direct from the growers was limited also to 100 bushels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 4
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175WHEAT TRADE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 4
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