WHEAT AND FLOCK

Southland Times, Issue 18839, 4 June 1920, Page 5

WHEAT AND FLOCK

A CRISIS PREDICTED. AN ADVOCATE OF ECONOMY, (Special to the Times.' CHRISTCHURCH, June 3. Sneaking at the South Canterbury Farmers’ Union Conference, Mr John Kitchener, M.P. (President', said that before the present year was out ho believed that they would be fared with a food crisis in New Zealand, The Board of Trade should take the matter up immediately with a view to giving directions lor the making of bread of a lower quality than was at present used, bread with more bran and pollard in it. If this were done the existing stock of wheat could be made to go further. It would not do them a bit of harm to cat bread with less of the ntfai removed from it. Their forefathers lived on bread much less refined than was used to-day, and they v. ere handier and quite as brainy as their successors of to-day. It would surely be better to rat bread not quite so white than to run short, of flour altogether.— (Hear, hear, i He anticipated that before the present season was oxer it xvould not be possible to buy wheal from other countries at less than 10/- or 13/- per bushel, if it could be got at. all. The President- added ihal if they could turn the corner this year they xvould lie on a better footing next year, as everything pointed to a larger area being sown in wheat tills winter. Tills, however, added to the difficulty in the meantime, as it meant that more wheal xvould require to be saved for seed.