WHEAT HARVEST
HEAVY CROP PAYMENTS IN CHRISTCHURCH. SUM OF .£518,000 ALREADY DISBURSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. With a daily average payout of over £30,000, there can be few busier offices in Christchurch at the present lime than those of the Wheat Committee, from which crop cheques are now being despatched to farmers. Since Febtuary 5, when the first returns came in from brokers, a total of 2,129,743 bushels had been handled up to last night, representing payments to farmers' accounts totalling .£580.000. With a record quick harvest, this huge amount of wheat has been handled in less than a month. For the same period last year less than a quarter of this amount had been handled. The returns are now at. their peak- and yesterday 300,000 bushels were handled, worth approximately £BO,OOO.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 6
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134WHEAT HARVEST Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 6
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