asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware that certain private mill owners have been refused facilities for the purchase of maize, and if he will now give an allocation of this commodity to persons whose mills are equipped with machinery for the milling of maize meal.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Maize for Private Mills.
The quantity of maize available for distribution in the current month has been allocated to former registered maize millers in proportion to their average monthly usage in the year ended 31st July, 1939, and is less than 50 per cent. of that average. The quantity of maize milled pre-war by persons other than registered maize millers was negligible.
There is a considerable number of millers who were not in the maize milling business pre-war and who are now anxious to handle this commodity, but it would not be practicable or economical, so long as maize is in short supply, to make allocations to such millers.