WHEAT SHORTAGE
ECONOMY IN TISE ADVOCATED. By Telerrapli—Press Association. Timaru, July 21. At a meeting of the committee of tho Chamber of Commerco, which was specially convened to consider tho wheat shortage, Mr. Nowmau (manager of tho Farmers Co-operative Association) stated that, some local mills must, close down about the beginning of October for lack of wheat. After discussion Mr. Newman proposed a motion urging on tho fiovernment the desirability of taking steps at once to economise the availablo siijjplies by increasing the percentaEO taKon from wheat by millers and encouraging a larger use of potatoes in bread, and, if deemed necessary, to introduce some system of rationing. This gas carried unanimously. Another motion was carried urging the Government tojlo everything possible to get the Australian embargo on the importation of potatoes removed, otherwise much of tho large crop would go to waste to the great loss of tho growers,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 255, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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