542 MAIZE 



CHAP. if) Advice of dispatch of maize. 



XII. Inter-railway departmental matter. Withdrawn. 



(g) Forwarding of respective descriptions of qualities of maize in separate 

 trucks. 



Vide Resolution No. g (e). 

 (h) Shipping freights. 

 Resolution XIII — ■ 



" This Conference, having heard the views of the representatives of the 

 steamship companies, desires to urge upon the several Governments and upon 

 the Union Government the seriously prejudicial effect any increase of shipping 

 freight will have on the production and export of grain ; this Conference therefore 

 resolves to urge upon the Governments to take such measures as may be necessary 

 to ensure, if possible, 



(a) maintenance of the present freight ; 



(/j) sufficient ship tonnage to carry the maize traffic ; 



(c) opportunities to ship directly to other leading ports in the United Kingdom 



and the Continent, in addition to the present ports of landing ; and 

 (</) a contract for at least three years to fix these conditions. 11 



12. Collection of Agricultural Statistics by the Government. 



Such statistics to include a forecast of harvests. 

 Resolution XIV — 



" This Conference recommends that a properly constituted statistical bureau 

 be at once inaugurated and an expert appointed. This bureau to provide statistics 

 of acreage planted, report monthly on seasons and probable yield of crops, and 

 show extent of South African consumption, estimates of final yield and of export- 

 able surplus, the estimates to cover native crops and monthly statistics of quantity 

 exported, etc. 11 



13. Storage of Maize. 



On farm, stations, inland storing stations, and at ports. 

 Resolution XV — 



"This Conference is of opinion that maize for export should be stored up- 

 country as long as possible, and that for this purpose the Government should be 

 requested to erect covered storehouses but open, at the sides, at the chief grain- 

 exporting railway stations, for the convenience of farmers and merchants, and 

 that a charge be made for storing and holding grain to cover the cost. Regula- 

 tions to be made so that grain cannot be held in such stores for speculative 

 purposes. 11 



14. Grain Elevators. 



Are such required ? 

 Resolution XVI — 



" This Conference having heard the views of the representatives of the 

 steamship companies regarding the erection of elevators recommends that, before 

 any decision be taken, exhaustive inquiries, preferably by the appointment of 

 competent persons visiting Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Russia, be 

 made by the Government ". 



15. Export Traffic. 



Numerical checking of bags by railway authorities. 

 Resolution XVII— 



" This Conference is of opinion that it is desirable that arrangements be 

 made by the railway authorities to check (if requested by sender) the number of 



