REPLY TO MR CHAMBERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2365, 6 September 1887, Page 3

REPLY TO MR CHAMBERS.

TO THK UDITOII. Sin, —I observe a letter in yunr issue of Ist inst., from Mr R, Chambers, in which he endeavours to put a wet blanket on wheat growing in Waikato, and brings to hia aid a partner of an Auckland milling (Inn, who says it is more profitable to buy Southern wheat, and it is better for their trade. No doubt we have men who profess to be millers, and whose judgment is generally taken before that of an experienced miller. 1 ask Mr Chambers when, or where, he read such a statement of mine quoted, in any journal, that 1 could not use Waikato wheat. For his information I may say I bought Waikato wheat before Mr Chambers fuw New Zealand, and I would like him to name, a year when f have not used Waikato wheat. It is true that I use a large proportion of Southern wheat, simply because the quantity has not been grown locally to supply onr wants, and f again repeat, let thu farmers grow the class of wheat which we cun use freely, and ,1 will ho a buyer of Waikato wheat. As to the quantity of wheat purchased this last season, Mr Chambers states that I have only bought some few hundred sacks. L say that I have bought some thousands, and last mouth alone I bought 011 sacks for my Auckland mill, and during the season I bought tiOOO sacks for the Ngaruawahia mill. No doubt Mr Chambers can tup these figures.—Yours truly, John Lamp,