WHEAT SHORTAGE
SERIOUS POSITION IN ENGLAND,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 8. The Press is sounding- a note of alarm in connection with the vrorld’s wheat position. “The Times’-’ declares that a new food epoch has opened, and unless energetic steps are taken to meet .the peril, bread, promises to rise to unheard-of prices for a serie.s of rears. It urges drastic action by the". Government, and increai-qd homegrowing of wheat. The ‘‘Daily Mail” estimates that on the latest figures Europe is likely to be short hy a thousand million loaves in 1921, and is undoubtedly faced with a bread famine of the worst kind. Every country in Europe is importing, and none is exporting. Britain will-bo-left in the lurch, and will ba 3,500,000 tons short. Experts say that on the present prices it will be cheaper to grow wheat in England than to buy it abroad. There is likely to bo a '"wh'Oat-growing'' campaign comparable to the great culture during the war.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10612, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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165WHEAT SHORTAGE New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10612, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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