WHEAT PRODUCTION
; Lloyd George’s Son OEJHCTS TO SUBSIDY OPERATION OF THE QUOTA AM E A DM EXT IJEFEATED (Aust. ana N.Z. Cable) London, March 21. In the llou.se of Commons Major Lloyd George, supporting an amendment to limit the operation of the wheat: quota for live years, said the subsidy payable was equal to the whole labour eostt in the existing wheat area, plus the contemplated additional 400,000 acres expected to be devoted to wheat. We could buy all the additional wheat procurable an l pay the additional 13,000 employees £IOO a year and still spend £2,000,000 less than the proposed subsidy cost. Sir John Gilmour Minister of Agriculture, said the Government's plan was to give the wheat farmers a certain three years to run. when the circumstances would be reviewed.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 6
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