SATURDAY, 17th AUGUST, 1918.

(At Katanning.)

Present: Hon. W. C. Angwin, M.L.A. (Chairman). Hon. J. F. Allen, M.L.C. | S. M. Brown, Esq., M.L.A.

T. H. Harrison, Esq., M.L.A.

FREDERICK THOMAS ROPER PIESSE, Flour Miller, sworn and examined:

5739. You are grisitng a lot of wheat from the Al-stack?—Yes.

5740. What do you think of that wheat?—It is very uneven; very patchy.

5741. Have you examined the stacks down there?—Yes.

5742. Has weevil gone right through them?—Some of the stacks are in very fair order, those that have been well covered and kept in a dry condition from the initial stacking. Those that have been outside and which were stacking during wet weather are in a bad condition. From some of those outside stacks it would be difficult to take out any wheat that was fit for milling I am basing my assertion in that direction on the fact that I was asked to take a 7,000 bag stack from there by the Westralian Farmers, Ltd., some time ago, by the late manager of the Scheme, Mr. Sibbald. I refused to take delivery of any of it. They were going to load the wheat without sampling or grading, and Mr. Sibbald asked me to do my best to shift some of this wheat as they required the place for Dalgety's wool store. I went to Albany to see what could be done with it. When the stack was opened up they cleared a small place to put the inferior wheat in. They shifted 2,000 bags and the wheat which was put aside as good totalled 150 bags. It was musty, and although the grain was fair order I could not honestly put it through the mill.