OUTLOOK SERIOUS
OUR SUPPLIES 03? WHEAT.
"The drought in the South - Island has ' chiefly affected South Canterbury and North, Otago, which are the principal wheat-growing areas of the Dominion," said the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. W. P. Massey, yesterday.' "I regard tho outlook as very serious indeed. If we get rain within the noxt two. or three weeks, the position would be saved. It is unfortunate ''lat the drought has stack tho wheat-giowing districts more than anywhere else. "It has been suggested that I should permit the exportation of wheat to Australia on condition that Australia, wiiich is now short of wheat, will agree to export an equal quantity to us when the harvest there, which is earlier than ours, is gathered. But Ido not intend to take any risks of this kind' with tho foodstuffs of tho people, nor take any chances of getting ourselves into the position in which we found ourselves last year owing to the shortage of wheat."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 6
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163OUTLOOK SERIOUS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 6
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