FEED BARLEY
STRONG .OBJECTION RAISED TO IMPORTATION. POSITION OF MARLBOROUGH GROWERS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association,) BLENHEIM. January 20. Strong objection to the importation of Australian feed barley when indications are that ample grain of this grade will be available from local crops was expressed at a meeting of the Blenheim Farmers’ Union. It was claimed by members that the Government gave an assurance that before it authorised the importation of barley it would ascertain what New Zealand supplies would be available. As far as they were aware, this inquiry had not been made in Marlborough, where a partial failure of crops, due to the erratic season, had resulted in about half the yield being second grade, only fit for feed and not for malt.
Opinion in the grain trade, it was stated,' was that Marlborough growers would have to accept as low as 2s Gd a bushel in order to compete against Australian barley, and that price would not pay even labo.ur costs.
It was decided to ask the Minister of Industries and Commerce why he did not ascertain the quantity of feed barley likely to be available in Marlborough before permitting importation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 3
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