FOOD SUPPLIES
SLOW PROGRESS IN WHEAT CAMPAIGN POSITION IN THE WAIRARAPA. POSSIBILITY OF USING POTAIt) FLOUR. “According to a recent report, investigations are being made into the possibility of .utilising potato flour to relieve the threatened shortage of wheaten flour,” stated Mr N. Lamont, district organiser, Primary Production Council. “Naturally every possibility should be thoroughly explored but these proposals do savour rather of an attempt at ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul.’ Wheat and potatoes are mutually replacable m the human diet to a very large extent, but, unfortunately, the position is that we are faced with a serious shortage of both of these foods and, at present, there is little prospect of there being a surplus of either one which could be utilised to compensate for deficiency of the other. ' “Reports of such investigations are indeed no more reassuring than reports which are being received concerning the reluctance of farmers to take the trouble to grow wheat,” said Mr Lamont. “Although only a few reports from canvassers have yet been received, these are consistent in suggesting that farmers generally are not in any hurry to respond to the appeal so clearly expounded by Mr W. W. Mulholland in Masterton recently. “It is true that we are planning for a distant objective and the results of the present effort will not be reaped until 1943. What the position will be then, we do not know, but it will be cold comfort if we find ourselves on short rations, to say that we thought we could get all our wheat from Australia. Wheat is a safe crop and a payable crop and it does not seem very much to ask that the effort be made now, that will make certain that our bread supplies will be ample next year instead of simply assuming, or hoping that some other country will look after us.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 4
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