SPOILT WHEAT
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST
GOVERNMENT
(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)
SYDNEY, 2nd May.
The Sydney Sun newspaper charges the New South Wales Government with attempting to coerce the millers to make flour from tainted wheat. This wheat, the paper states, wae part of the 1916-17 crop, which the British Government rejected. It was damaged by weather and contaminated by dead mice and other vermin. It was unfit for human consumption, and might cause a disease known as "rope plague." The Sun adds : "Some of the millers refused this wheat, demanding clean grain, of which a plentiful supply was available."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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98SPOILT WHEAT Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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