WHEAT SUPPLY.
MI XI ST Kirs WORK IN TIIK south.
The Hon. W. !). S. MacDonald. Minister ok Agriculture, who returned to Wellington yesterday after spend in”' over two weeks in the South Island, devoted a "'real deal of his time to the wheat question, and addressed twenty-five meetings of farmers. At practically all of these gatherings resolutions were passed assurin'* - the Government (hat the wheat-growers would use their best endeavours to put in increased areas of wheal for the purpose of supplying the requirements of tin* Dominion. In North Gauterbury the farmers promised to give every assistance possible, the Minister recognising that I hey were under a serious disadvantage owing to the prolonged spell of dry weather. The Minister announced that the Government was taking over the next wheat crop at 5s Kiel per bushel f.o.b.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 3
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136WHEAT SUPPLY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 3
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