MORE WHEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 4

MORE WHEAT.

APPEAL TO FARMERS. "FIGHT ON FARM FRONT." EVERY BUSHEL COUNTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ! CHRISTCHURCH, this day. \ Farmers could help to avert a national , disaster by growing more wheat, declares a statement for distribution among all wheatgrowers and farmers prepared by the controller or wheat and flour, Mr. R. McPherson, who is making a further appeal to sow more wheat. Headed "You are fighting or. the farm front,' the circular goes on to say: "The willingness of the farmer to grow wheat is definitely an important factor in the life or death struggle in which the r British Commonwealth of Nations and t its allies are now engaged. It is absoi lutely imperative that New Zealand must not depend on outside supplies. In the first place the part New Zealand ' may have to play in this war may make a flour famine such as was only narrowly averted in the last war a national f disaster. Every extra bushel of wheat ) grown in New Zealand releases a bushel i of Empire grown wheat for the war area, ; where the destiny of every one of us s will be decided. Food is the first essen--1 tin 1." t Seed wheat is immediately available and it fanners find any difficulty they [ should write to the controller. Wheati "rowers' requirements of superphosphate ' will receive priority, while there is 110 restriction on oil fuels for farm use.