COUNTRY MUST GROW MORE WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 216, 7 June 1920, Page 8

COUNTRY MUST GROW MORE WHEAT

FARMERS TO BE APPEALED TO. By Telegraph—Press. Association. 1 ~ 'T" r , Dunedin, June 5.; Jlr. .T. B. Waters waited on the Far- ; .Biers' Union, oil Ijehalf of -the Wheat Trade Ci-nimittee, and expressed the re- . Btet of ii'r. IMacdonald, the Wheat. Con- .. Itoller, and'the Hon. W. Nosworthy,Jlinister ol Agriculture, that they were tillable to be present. He had been, asked to do all hfi could to emphasise tho absolute .necessity : of increasing tho Wat production.' For the first time' eiuoe the ■ lvlicnt control had been inaugurated.-: the,: Government had given' •we farmers sufficient inducement'to en■;j - courage, them to grow . wheat. Tho I Minister had i pointed out that, it had ■been decided to accept 75.:3 d. for Tuscan, 7s. 6d. for Hunter's, and 7s. 9d. for pea.i\l._ This ..wps' the. minimum, for the price did;not' necessarily mean- ■ the maximum if the world .price of , wheat was higher ' than . the New .Zea-'. P" •farmer would get..- . Nothing had , , been definitely settled .'as" to tho price of ... under, milling wheat, but there were ;■ .excellent grounds:for believing that the I maximum price for 'it would be 2d. less ' than -for good milling. That • "was- a point. ■ .appeal ■ .to' farmers ' growing wheat south of Dunedin, where; ■ sometimes the:, percentage-, was below nulling, quality, ■ Thj-area; put under -'wheat in- the Dominion, was steadily decreasing, Tn 1914 » -wero 229,000 acres, but last . year .there,were only; 1-12,000 acres un- • der wheat/ and it had been necessan to buy, -1,000,000 bushels in Australia. By July next the lagt of that Would Have, been..-shipped, and it was highly probable that--Australia would refuse to i Mil any more -except at exorbitant rates. ' i !l S Being to -be-'#- serious "problem - «■ t l ; tmld supply-.millers with sufficient wheat to carry on with until ' : 'a® 2e w. season's crop -was -available. . ' Vn DI TO , resol, '°d- that - the: president ♦?» 1 Waters be empowered to n'isit ; wheat-growing.'districts, and urge ,-. . the fanners to 'grow - wheat. •