SERIOUS WHEAT SHORTAGE PREDICTED
DISCUSSION AT TIMARU. By Telegraph.—Preps Association. Timaru, .Tuly fi. At a meeting of the Timnrii Farmers' Union, Mr. John Talbot said that there was a shortage of from ouo to one and a half million bushels of wheat this year. It is understood that the Government had bought a million bushels in Australia, but it would be difficult to get it over. Tho. position probably would be worse next year, as the area sown, and to be sown wns from 3 to 40 per cent, less, and if this harvest were as bad as the the position would Ob very serious. There might be thrco millioiis short. The spring .sowing could not make un the present shortage in th» area'.' Sir James Allen's instructions to tho Military Appeal Boards were not l»ing carried out, as tho last men were in some cases being taken from their farms. . Other members condemned the purchasing of wheat in Australia at higher cost than paid to New /.ertlatidhrp, especially as Australian labour was .not con-sc-'ijtal. It was Tesolved unanimously to call fie Min'ster's attention to tho fact that the. boards we sending away some of the last moil, and also to urge the farmers to grow as much wheat as 7>ossible.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 248, 8 July 1918, Page 4
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211SERIOUS WHEAT SHORTAGE PREDICTED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 248, 8 July 1918, Page 4
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