PRODUCE MORE

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 101, 28 April 1917, Page 9

PRODUCE MORE

! ■ ' < .uj,, :■"■"- TO THB EDIIOB. . i .">;.. - Sir,—ln' your issue of 25th insfc appears a. small paragraph of a report: by .Mr; Kennedy Jones, Director-General of Food Supplies in England. The serioas,ness of the situation; should make us realise float the time, has .arrived! for na to pay more earnest attention to production. We have sent away 80 per cent.: of our agricultural manual labour. Tha Minister for Agricnlturo is appealing to the fanners to grow more wheat, but' no attempt is being made to provide the necessary assistance to allow of this being, done." We seem bound' to puddle along 1, in good old British style until we come right up against a serious food difficulty., .Why not call on the Second Division by, ballot for agricultural purposes, and control all production under War Regulatioa for the war period ? The whole ofi our commercial machinery to be operated as at presmii under the Regulations. The farmer to receive a commission on ths production of his farm, tihe commercial' man a handling commission, and the man who is called up 'to be paid' an adequate salary and separation allowance. .What -scope can we givo the Efficiency Board unless wel provide it with the means of production? How provide the men to produce without a large measure of nationalisation? There is no doubt that' the situation is sufficiency serious to warrant drastic measures being taken.—l am, ct<\, A. AISLABIE. 27th April.