Indifference to Wheat Campaign in View of Prices
CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 24
Recent criticism ol the Government’s handling of the campaign to grow more wheat was supported today by Mr W. H. Gillespie, M.P., who said that to get results it was necessary that wheat should be placed on the same basis as more profitable crops. Broadcasts on the grow-inore-wheat campaign contained so much nonsense that, instead of having the desired result, they were upsetting farmers and tending to give them an attitude of indifference to the campaign.
“A visit to the wheat-growing areas and a broadcast or two by the Minister of Agriculture, who has the confidence of the farmers, would do more to gain an increase in the acreage of wneat than the wasteful me thods now being used. I believe that farmers generally will make some response to the appeal. No worthwhile; advance will ne mane, however, until the Government takes note of the returns from other crops a.nc places the growing of wheat on the same basis,” he added,
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Grey River Argus, 25 February 1948, Page 8
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