MORE WHEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 6

MORE WHEAT

IMPERATIVE NATIONAL NECESSITY APPEAL TO NEW ZEALAND FARMERS. MEANS OF AVERTING DISASTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Farmers can help tp avert a national disaster by growing more wheat, deciares a statement tor distribution among all wheatgrowers and farmers, prepared by the Controller of Wheat and Flour, Mr R. McPherson, who is making a further appeal for the sowing of more wheat. It is headed: “You, are you fighting on the farm front?” The circular goes on to say that the willingness of the farmer to grow wheat is definitely an important factor in the life or death struggle in which the British Commonwealth of Nations and its Allies are now engaged. “It is absolutely imperative that New Zealand must not depend on outside supplies.” The statement declares: “In the first place, the part New Zealand jngy have to play in this war may make a flour famine, such as was only narrowly averted in the last war, a national disaster. Every extra bushel of wheat grown in New Zealand releases a bushel of Empire-grown wheat for the war area, where the destiny of every one of us will be decided. Food is a first essential.” Seed wheat is immediately available and if farmers find any difficulty they should write to the Controller. Wheatgrowers’ requirements of superphosphate will receive priority. There is no restriction on oil fuels for farm use.