SHORTAGE OF WHEAT.
FLOUR MILLS CLOSING. POTATOES FOR BREAD. By Telegrnpii—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night.
At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce, specially convened to consider the wheat shortage, Mr. Newman, manager of the Farmers' Co-op. Association, stated that some local mills must close down about the beginning of October for lack of wheat. After a discussion, Mr. Newman moved a motion urging on the Government the desirability of taking steps at once to economise in the available supply by increasing the percentage taken from wheat by the millers and encouraging a larger use of potatoes in bread, and, if deemed necessary, to introduce soine system of rationing. This was carried unanimously. Another motion was carried urging the Government to do everything possible to get the Australian embargo on the importation of potatoes removed, otherwise much of the large crop would go to waste, to the great loss of the growers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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