GRAVE FOOD SCARCITY IN EAST ASIA
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 8. The food situation is most critical in the monsoonal area of Asia, said DrR. Ogilvie Buchanan, reader in geography at the University College, London, who is visiting New Zealand at the invitation ot' the Canterbury University College Council. Burma, Siam'and French Indo-China, which formerly supplied rice to the densely populated eastern areas, were producing barely sufficient for their own needs, he said > This area contains nearly half the population of the world. Questioned regarding New Zealand's future prosperity. Dr. Buchanan said he though that Britain would not in the foreseeable future be as good a market as in the, past, but he could not see a better market capable of absorbing New Zealand’s surpluses. The obvious alternative . ought to be the United Slates but. apart from wool, it seemed likely that the American policy would continue largely to exclude New Zealand produce.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22658, 8 June 1948, Page 6
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