WHY ASK FARMERS TO GROW WHEAT?
NATIONALIST M.P. WANTS TO KNOW! CHRISTCHURCH, June 4. Mr R. G. Gerard, Nationalist M.P. fox’ Mid-Canterbury, speaking in Geraldine, said he firmly believed the Aid-to-Britain campaign was being used as a political weapon to divide the town and countiy. At first when he had heard this suggested he had taken it as idle talk. After seeing posters displayed all over Auckland city asking farmers to grow more wheat, it had made him wonder. How much wheat was grown in Auckland? Why display those posters there? People were continually being told farmers were falling down on their job. This was not true.
Mr Gerard asked: “Why ask a man to grow wheat when he can make more out of other products?”
The only way to increase the production of wheat was to pay the farmer a higher price for it. Mr H. Turner had stated during his visit from England that it was not wheat which was urgently required in England, but meat. Australia and New Zealand were her main sources of supply.
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Grey River Argus, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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