WHEAT SHORTAGE
CANTERBURY POSITION. "MILLS MUST CLOSE." (Per Press Association.) TIMARU, July 21. At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce specially convened to consider the wheat short-
age, Mr. Newman, manager of the Fanners' Co-operative Association, stated that some local mills must close down about the beginning of October for lack of wheat. After discussion Mr. Newman moved a motion urging on the Government the desirability of taking steps at once to ornrimise the available supplies by increasing the percentage taken from wheat by millers, and encouraging the J".vTer ive of potatoes in bread; and, if deemed npoowiiT, to introduce some f.y-tnrn of rationing. TM« was carried unanimously ; and another motion was carried urging rh/j n. .■.■■-•.■n-i-.-.-.-nf t,i cln everything possible to get the Australian embargo on the importation of potatoes removed, other wise much of the larnre crop would go to waste to "the great loss of growers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1920, Page 3
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