N.Z. HAY WANTED
AUSTRALIAN ORDER May Buy 40,000 Tons To Help Drought Areas Rec. 2.30 p.m. " SYDNEY, this'day. Large quantities of New Zealand grass will be shipped to Sydneyearly in the new year if arrangements can be made with the Dominion Government. The grass will be in the form of meadow hay. The importation has become necessary because of the desperate shortage of stock .fodder in New South Wales. ' The chief agrostologist of the .Department of "Agriculture, Mr. J. JST. Whittet, is now in New Zealand investigating the position. The New South Wales Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said Mr. Whittet had been instructed not to confine his inquiries to meadow hay, although that was the most likely source of supply, but to explore every avenue that might lead, to feed of any kind. v '■£ A Sydney produce merchant said it was hoped that Mr. Whittet might be able to-buy up to 40,000 tons, all of which would be necessary to carry dairy herds through the next few months unless the drought broke soon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 304, 23 December 1944, Page 6
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