WHEAT SHORTAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 5

WHEAT SHORTAGE

POSITION IN CANADA PRICE SOARING EFFECT OX EM I’I.OYM ENT (United Pross Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association.—United ■Service) OTTAWA, 17th July. A. Winnipeg message states that a continuance of terrific beat and drought in the Canadian prairies has sent wheat upward eigliL and a half cents per bushel to-day. FEWER HARVESTERS WANTED (Received IHtli July, 11.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 17th July. A message from Winnipeg states that with a wheat crop estimated at approximately half of the 1928 yield, employment officials state that only 25 per cent, of the harvest help required in 1928 will be needed to deal with this year’s crop. Last year 50,000 harvest workers were brought, from Eastern Canada, and 15,000 from Britain. It was unlikely, they stated, that during the coming season any Britishers would be brought to Canada to deal with the harvest.

ESTIMATED SHORTAGE 400,000,000 BUSHELS (Received 18th July, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, 17th duly. Future deliveries of wheat have swept to new high levels as the prospects of a world shortage before the harvesting of the 1930 crop have arisen ami the Canadian spring planting has shrunk under the high temperature. 1 railing was wild to-day. 'Late estimates from the North Western wheat areas indicated that the shortage would he above 400,000,000 bushels in the North American spring crop.