BRITAIN'S AGRICULTURE
AID FROM THE STATE. LESSONS FROM THE WAR. CAME TOO NEAR DISASTER. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing the representatives of agriculture at Caxton Hall, urged still greater increase in the agricultural output. The Government was determined to put agriculture on a satisfactory basis, continuing wartime protection and enabling industrious farmers to confidently invest capital. If Germany had pursued the British policy of neglecting agriculture Germany would have collapsed during the war within a year. We must not take the same chances again, for we came too near disaster, especially in 1017, under the submarine menace. During the war Britain restored lli million acres to cultivation. Experts estimated that 150 millions worth of food now imported could be produced in Britain, thus enormously benefiting exchange.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5
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