WHEAT GROWING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4

WHEAT GROWING

FIVE HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND WANTED APPEAL TO WAIRARAPA FARMERS. CAMPAIGN FOR INCREASED AREA. “While recognising their responsibility as land owners to do their utmost to secure New Zealand’s bread supplies, many farmers find themselves unable for various reasons to sow wheat themselves,” states Mr N. Lamont, local organiser of the Masterton Primary Production Council. “Such men will no doubt be only too willing to make their land available under short lease, some kind of share arrangement or even, in many cases, without any conditions, to be used for wheat growing by men who have the equipment. “I have already been approached by men with the machinery who are, between them, prepared to sow and harvest 500 acres if this area can be found close to Masterton. There is not a shadow of a doubt that this area, and more, could be found and there must be many owners who are not prepared to simply allow their land to stagnote under permanent pasture when our daily bread is so seriously threatened. If such owners would let me have particulars of areas they are prepared to offer, with some idea of terms, I will be very pleased to put them in touch with owners of equipment and assist in the drawing up of agreements acceptable to all parties. As most of these areas are likely to be in pasture at the present time, it will be necessary to commence preparatory cultivation at once, and the matter should therefore be taken in hand without delay.”