WAR TIME PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 8

WAR TIME PLANS

AGRICULTURAL WORK IN BRITAIN BIG AREA BEING CULTIVATED. APPEAL FOR SPEEDING UP ' . GENERALLY. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 12. A Ministry of Information communique states that the Minister, of Agriculture, in a statement on war time plans, says: Another million and a half acres must be brought under the plough in the coming year. We are attempting in one year what was achieved in four years in the last war. The Ministry appeals for a general speeding up of all forms of farming, pointing out that the current harvest had turned out better than had been expected. The statement, contrasting conditions now with those in 1914, adds: This time things are different. Our plans are ready. Food, fuel and other requisites are stored and sixty thousand tractors are held privately, plus a reserve stock. We are in a far better position for ploughing up Britain than in 1918, when our last national effort reached its height. Detailed instructions follow for the best means .of conserving and improving livestock, poultry and so on and an appeal is made to the kitchen gardener and allotment holder to produce poultry feed. MEAT SUPPLIES SUFFICIENT FOR REASONABLE REQUIREMENTS. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. ' The Ministry of Food announces that supplies of meat are sufficient for all reasonable requirements but possibly there may be some difficulty in securing particular kinds.