SHORTAGE OF GOODS
Sir, —Mr Donald and “Pioneer’s Daughter” accuse me of talking about sugar-bags in my letter to “Common Sense” recently. They should have another look, 1 did not mention the lf they want to mention sugar-bags I would say that the filling of 75,000 of those bags with food by the responsible Government of that time every Monday morning was a huge gesture. Mr Donald does not like the truth of his party’s misdoings in those days. He says I might have been too young to remember the last slump. I had cause to remember it, and I also remember the slumps of 1898 and 1921, so I am no chicken now. There is something else I call to mind —the production of 11,000,000 bushels of wheat in 1932 when 1,000,000 bushels were exported and 1,000,000 bushels were imported into this country in the form of flour. —Yours, etc., G. E. WRIGHT. July 2, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 5
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