Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Crop Production Correspondence and Papers

Files relating to the Wheat Acts 1932 and 1939 and orders made under these Acts. They include papers on the Standard Price Committee and other means of control and production of crops; and general policy papers on crop production, storage and control. Materials relating to the Wheat Commission and its role in administering a scheme of deficiency payments, and the various bye-laws of the Wheat Commission made under powers conferred by the 1932 Act. These bye-laws contained provisions relating to quota payments, the issue of provender millers' certificates exempting them from quota payment liability, the registration of growers, the issue of wheat certificates, claims for deficiency payments and other matters concerned in the administration of the Act.

The records also deal with the amendments to the Wheat Act 1932 consequent upon the passing of the Agriculture Act, 1937, and the Agricultural Development Act, 1939. The papers covering the war and immediate post-war years deal with the policy adopted for the re-conditioning of flour mills, the Wheat Committees, the control of barley, oats, rye, peas, beans, linseed etc., the future of the grain silos, and the various committees that were set up to advise on home-grown cereals policy, brewing and distilling, feeding grains, utilisation of crops and so on.

This series contains some papers re-registered from the CPR file series: MAF 120