DOMINION NEWS
ALAIOST A RECORD
CANTERBURY WHEAT YIELD
CHRISTCHURCH, May IS.
The, figures given by: president of. North -Canterbury branch of the Farmers’ Union (Mr Colin Mclntosh), in an address this morning/ indicated that jthe average yield- per acre of Canterbury -wheat would this year be not 4 faiX short of tho record of 38jf bushels:, established in 1920. • Tints 0ver'294,000 acres would give a- total yield: ; .nf/ll)319j000 h.ushels, or an estimated 'surplus .of 2,500,000 bushels to deal?with"and save a serious break in the: market. . >
■ The-Government -had instituted what was tantamount to a compulsory pool, which he thought was the best arrangement ;that could have been mado: iti the. circumstances.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11950, 22 May 1933, Page 2
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