NEW ZEALAND GRASS
WANTED BY AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, December 24. Large quantities of New Zealand I grass will be shipped to Sydney early in the New Year if arrangements can be made with the Dominion Government. The grass will be in the form of meadow hay. The importation has become necessary because of- the desperate shortage of stock fodder in New South Wales. The chief agrostrologist of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. J. N. Whittet, is now in New Zealand investigating the position. The New South Wales Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said that Mr. Whittet has been instructed not to confine his inquiries to meadow hay, though that was the most likely source of supply, but to explore every avenue that might lead to feed of any kind. A Sydney produce merchant said it was hoped Mr. Whittet might be able to buy up to 40,000 tons, all of which would be necessary to carry the dairy herds through the next few months unless the drought broke soon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 152, 26 December 1944, Page 5
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