TO PROTECT THE BRITISH FARMER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 14 August 1915, Page 5

TO PROTECT THE BRITISH FARMER

By;. Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 14, 0.25 a.m.) London, August 13. The Board of Agriculture's Food Supplies Committee has prepared an interim report. It is understood that .with a, view of encouraging wheat-growing it will recommend tho Government to guaranteo farmers a certain price, and also to impose certain duties to protect the British farmers.

'A Ponsonby boy serving in the Otago Battalion (Private J. S. Payne) makes | reference to tho losses of tho Otago men in the course of a letter written, in tho trenches on June 11:—"Our battalion received orders to charge a, trench, on the second Sunday after the landing. When we wore going up a gully to get to our objective tho Turkish snipers got to-us. My corporal and soveral others in tho section were hit. We were lead, ing tho battalion, and Were to form the iirst line of the charge. Wo went on, stumbling over hundreds of dead Turks, and eventually received tho word 'Go' from Major Price. It is hard to describe what followed. I heard the Australians, who were on our right, yelling 'Australia will bo there,' and Major Price calling, 'Como ou. Otago,' and then rifle shots drowned everything. Men went down all around uio, but wo took the trendies all right. That was about 9 p.m. The enemy was strongly reinforced, and we had to givo Wav at 3 a.m. Wo suffered severely, and when tho roll was called the compauy numbered 00 out of i.50, and tho other tkreo companies fared about the same. Sinco then wo have been going nil tho time—always attacking. Our boys havo done well, and havo denied tho country of snipers. Tho «nmtry wo aro in at present is exactly like tho Waitakoro Ranges, noar' Auckland, and we aro now on tho last hill. When wo take it we will como out on the flat, < £u^atod.>nd.£' :r '