Of Interest to Women
Don’t Waste Bread
In spite of a record Australian wheat harvest and a good American harvest, the world this year will be seriously short of wheat—a shortage of at least 500,000,000 bushels.
The world situation is so serious that the International Emergency Food Council still operates to determine the allocation of cereal supplies from countries with a wheat surplus to those with a deficiency. The needs of the deficiency countries are scaled down by the International Emergency Food Council to meet available surpluses from wheat-growing countries. This means that New Zealand can get only what can be spared from the more urgent needs of other countries.
In times of famine wheat ip the most useful of foods, because it is the most portable and easily distributed. This is a time of emergency, and every country will be Risked to cut down its demands by economising in every way. New Zealand is unlikely to receive enough wheat from Australia to meet its full requirements (in 1947 we had to import about 6,000,000 bushels), and all other importing countries will be in the same position.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 43, 31 March 1948, Page 4
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187Of Interest to Women Lake County Mail, Issue 43, 31 March 1948, Page 4
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