WHEAT FAMINE FEARED.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1920, Page 9

WHEAT FAMINE FEARED.

... .AI'STttALLVS DILKMMA.. I '•" "' Sydney, May o. It is liard to believe, but true, that it the next Australian wheat harvest is at .all below normal this country will be. faced with a wheat famine. The trouble, .again, is "muddling Government cyu-, l.trol'."'' -A'yoai- or two ago AiiktraiiaWM literally; groauiiig under its 'ciiormoiks accumulations, of wheat; uextjekrifniay have'tb inlport'wbcat : '"' , ! ' : ' l ',""'" Th«re ; i's an abundance of wheat in thi!' country, 'but' it has 'all been Ml',-'and; ships i from', hungry Europe the igrain...iji every port., -». ■ ''•'•"■ ; A/year iigo ilr.,liuglies .was-still nell> j ing.i »'heitt,. and) claiming credit j for, ■lii.ii "foresight ]ierspieauitj\:i ); Britain; bought practically all heoU'eriid firom.jtho', Australian pool. The voices of lar|eeing AustraliftMlJg-gedOStfltion, but 'Mr. ignored them. , I'JJq-day, Jhe ■ Bftuiq mehj arc asking ~ilr.. llnglies to ob- . serve that Argentine 'is'' selling lier i.wheat at more than lo.j a bushel.. Mr. ijiijJUiti is still ignorinj' them. Mr. „l.luglu's, ca K ,. r .«ifp(rt»rtS M&filftQnoulderwheat, anxious that Australia 'should get 'tlic benefit of every'pCTiijj offering'for her. produce, made iif'ltiis- . citlciitatibn',")!nd oversold, gambling' on -*■ .|opd harvest :in : 191 MO - ' and 102fl-21y Droviding at.least for homo Requirements. - • Unfortunately. -t|ie .last •harvest iwas a. failure, aud.did not:pro-.-. i'*ide,.half,,the normal. ,re.i|-uirenients of Abe 'Commonwealth. ~.' ... :■!.:):..: ; ; i- ,- -"'Already there is a movement afoot...tp rask to allow.a large qu,antvtyiOf| ''the sfijd b^t ; uus))ipped whiiat.t,o .rjjinSiw' in t|le, county ijntil tliq thp i next harfratilfe dscertainedr' This | will, be ;ui|Scultj, to', arrange, as .freigliy" Have'"been' Wokeil ''fof' i! 3r;Qn'ths' ahead.'" ; ."'"l : " ■ - .- ! '" - ; ; ' ;)| ■"' j|jM«a l hwhilc-'. New South "Wale's-' and' isquabbling."".? The| jße\y j South Wales'sticks'ran out month's 1 ago,' : and New i'Sdubh Wale's is V'gettiiig fidm (.Victoria all. wheat she-requires for Nhome consumption. Now Victoria is | running short ajid the Victorian nfjlers,, i who do not want to close down, are agitating to have the Victorian, wheat grisl-j ;-ed, to'Victoria'and' serit to. New' South} TW's ' the j VictoWa'n 'mills' -liuriy, : birt'"will- cldsd-'llp' | the New 'South Wales mills, atia NeW South" Wales, of course, is fighting-nlie' proposal;' '" "!-. ; --■ ':■■■■■ ■":.-:! .■-'■'■•••'■"