THE WHEAT IMPASSE.
During a speech in the House on Thursday, Sir Joseph Ward deprecated letting the hold-up between the wheat growers and the millers drift as it was doing. He did not believe the growers could grow wheat at a less price than 7s per bushel, but people could not afford to buy bread at the price necessitated by wheat costing 7s per bushel to grow. He suggested as a remedy that if wheat could not be grown cheaper than 7s per bushel farmers should be encouraged to go into some other class of farming, the duty should be taken off wheat, and the Dominion . should import what wheat it required, just as the people of Britain did, and they were never short of the necessary supplies.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3506, 3 July 1926, Page 2
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128THE WHEAT IMPASSE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3506, 3 July 1926, Page 2
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