APPEAL TO BRITISH FARMERS
MB, LLOYD GEORGE ON NEED FOR PRODUCTION. London, October 21. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing- representatives of agriculture in the Caxton Hall, appeaf.cd for a, still greater increase in agricultural output. The' Government was determined to put agriculture on a satisfactory basin by continuing tho wartime protection to eniiblo industrious farmers' to invest capital confidently.
If Germany hud pursued the British policy of neglecfaig agriculture, said tho Prime Minister, Germany would liavo collapsed in tho war within a year. Britain must not take the same chances again.' She came too near disaster, especially in 1917, under the submarino monnee. During the war Britain had restored 1,750,000 acres to cultivation. Exports estimated that 150 millions wortli of food, now imported, could be produced in Britain, that? enormously benefiting tho exchnngo situation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19191024.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135APPEAL TO BRITISH FARMERS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in