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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 May 1917, Page 2

Department of Agriculture,' Industries and Commerce, Wellington, 24th April, 1917. ASSISTANCE TO WHEATGROWERS. THIS Department will grant assistance as follows to those desirous of growing wheat this season :— SEED AND / OR MANURE. Farmers and others willing to grow wheat, but requiring financial backing for the purpose, will, on applying to the Fields Supervisor for their district, be furnished with a letter guaranteeing, on behalf of- the Department, payment for the harvest to any merchant or any vendor for the seed wheat and / or manure supplied. On receipt of the Government guarantee the applicant can forward it to any merchant or other vendor, and make his own arrangements with him. Full particulars ?nd forms of application can be obtained at any of the principal offices of the Department. AGRICULTURAL TRACTORS. • In any case where one or more settlers are certified by a local Board of National Efficiency Trustees to have an area of not lesa than 500 acres of wheat land suitable for a tractor, and wish to purchase one for growing that acreage of wheat, the Department will advance the funds on condition that the amount is re- I paid on terms to be arranged between the farmer and the Department. Applications giving full particulars, and accompanied by the Trustees' certificate, should be made to the Secretary of Agriculture, Industries and. Commerce, Wellington, and should state what terms of repayment and interest would be acceptable to the applicant: W. D f S. MacDONALD, ' Minister of Agriculture and |of ~ Industries and Commerce.