FARMERS AND WHEAT GROWING.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1918, Page 5

FARMERS AND WHEAT GROWING.

SHORTAGE OF LABOR, ACUTE t'o| By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, Sept "22 |> The executive of the i'arum' Lniojij 1 A* adopted a resolution that a letter' bfitlSJ y-nt to the Minister for Agi\cultme onf wheat-growing, stating that they truatf- '*>„ that due effect will he given to the Mir)-;* '* later'.? express opinion that should have protection from outsider, '-j fompetitiim. la reply to the Ivlinister'fc Sjj suggestion, farmers, owing to the'disrn |i heartening expei-ie-ice, cannot undertake sk to offer proposals for dealing with failure of the crops, asd they recom-il 'if mend that the Wheat Controller Director ot Agriculture be appointed to',» 3 make inquiries and report, the farw?r( ( ' -*s giving willing assistance- It is lsped .gj that a straight-out offer will be for next and following ycats' crops. Th« f ji figures of the Government Statistician' (August Aha tract) show that last wheat was less than half a million g bushels short of the year's requirements, so three and a-half millions of tho re- "jfi cent Australian purchase will go to ;®eet the shortage of nes" crop, The emphasises that this, should not be used to fix- tho price of loeallv-grown wheat- ' t 'M If it is, the promise of a free market will ibe impossible of realisation. The ' farmers are of opinion that the Govern-' ,;j® went should take over wheat under the : Theme worked'so well last | The letter also states that the position jii acuta through the continued depletion ' M "f working farmers and farm laborer.®, ,-If><?pite assurances |to the contrary, anl 'jM the replacement of labor is essential to the preservation of the industry ;"J'