INCREASED WHEAT ACREAGE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23848, 18 January 1943, Page 3

INCREASED WHEAT ACREAGE

REQUEST TO PRODUCTION COUNCIL

As about 100,000 acres of wheat were required from the Ashburton County next season, and only 47,000 acres had been contracted for, district committees were requested to get in touch with farmers to have the promised area increased, stated a letter from the Wheat Committee, received at a meeting of the Mid-Canterbury Primary Production Council on Friday evening. The committee forwarded a list of farmers in the county who had signed contracts. was placed on the need to confer with farmers who had not signed contracts to make promises, and also to get in touch with farmers who might increase the acreages they had contracted for. Reporting on the bivouac camp scheme for soldiers assisting with harvesting .in Mid-Canterbury, the chairman (Mr H. C. B. Withell) said that the scheme was proving satisfactory, and camps had been set up' in seven areas in the county. Speaking about the recent conference with the Minister for Primary Production for War Purposes (the Hon. J. G. Barclay). Mr Withell said that an officer of the Internal Marketing Department would visit the town at an early date to discuss the establishment of an egg marketing depot at Ashburton

Supplies of wire rope for silage ana hay stackers wer- available, and appli cations for rope should be made through district councils, stated a letter from the National Council of Primary Production.