GRAIN GROWERS' PROTEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 69, 11 August 1914, Page 4

GRAIN GROWERS' PROTEST.

AGAINST CEREAL EXPORT RESTRICTIONS. ! By 'felegrapa—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. At & meeting of the Southland League Executive Council yesterday, the president (Mr W. D. Hunt) drew attention to the proclamation prohibiting the export of all cereals, including oats. He said that he could not help thinking that the proclamation had been issued without due consideration, and that it was a mistake. This was a producing country, and if they were going to prohibit the export of foodstuffs, so that the people of the Dominion might have plenty, wrong means was being taken to accomplish that end. He considered that from the point of view of patriotism it was wrong that all foodstuffs should be locked up in this count' / when they would perhaps be urgently ,3>eeded in other parts of the Umpire. The only way to increase the amou/ie of grain being produced was to mike jt profitable for farmers to grow it. The average farmer was compelled by commercial necessity to produce wna 1 , paid hfe best, and prohibition of the export of grain would not have the desirable beneficial effect upon the market. He lenew a great many farmers who had enough to last them for twj ,years, and they did not intend to sa 'e any this year, and to grow oafs won 1 he to defeat their own object unli-.ts they were allowed to export. The 0II j T ay was ' ei the price mount, and when it had risen a little it wouH tion° Cf * eC '' st ' mu ' a *'ng produeMr Hunt moved: "That the meetii-• express its opinion that the Government had made a mistake, and that \ letter be despatched stating the reasoiis for that view." The motion was carried.