FUTURE CONFIDENCE.
BRITISH AGRICULTURE
Brltisli Official Wireless. (Reed. 10 a.m.) RUGBY, Doc. 12. Tlio Minister of Agriculture. Mr. R. S. Hudson, in a speech said that for tho first time for generations agriculture workers looked forward to the futuro with reasonable confidence, and landowners, farmers and workers could plan ahead with reasonable security. It was reasonable to promise that during the war the existing system of fixed prices should be maintained, and that a year after the war —a critical year for agriculture —would not see the end of control.
The Government was taking energetic measures to make available additional supplies of fertilisers required to increase production from existing available land and to bring grassland and derelict land into full production.
To offset the steadily increasing demands of the fighting services, Mr. Hudson urged farmers to train additional labour, most of which must be female. He paid a tribute to the magnificent work of the Women's Land Army.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 296, 13 December 1940, Page 8
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