WORLD’S WHEAT
IS SHORTAGE THREATENED?
BRITISH ANXIETY
LONDON, Oct. 16. Drawing attention to the remarkable development of the Chinese and Jananc-se demand for wheat. The Times, in a. leading article, points out that last season no fewer than 62.000, COO bushels of North American wheat were shipped to the Far East.. It adds*: “It would not bq right to dec'aro that the situation is alarming. but no one. looking to the future rather than to the immediate present, can fail to recognise that if Britain is compelled to continue to import four-fifths ol her wheat Requirements it is impossible to view without some ar.xletv the development of an important competitor for the surplus supplies which are now available.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 3
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