WHEAT GROWING.
NO ENCOURAGEMENT. (by TELEGRAPH—PKESS ASSOCIATION.') . V ELLINGTON, July 24. speaking at the annual meeting of the Farmers’ Union to-day, Mr G. W. Lead ley, who has for many years Ik-.ch prominently connected with the wheatgrowing industry, said the existing Customs tariff was subject to the will of the Minister, - and the way the tariff had been chopped and hacked about had been disastrous. Owing to a variety of causes the Dominion had not been producing sufficient- wheat to meet the requirements of the country. In the; Financial Statement just delivered the Prime Minister stated that the Government had to pay £1,125,000 for wheat imported from Australia. That money could have been saved if encouragement had been given the wheatgrowers. Growers Had become so disgusted with the position that iie had heard them say they would not now grow wheat, even at ten sniHi/igs per bushel. Mr Leadley concluded: “We ought to grow our own wheat, and we should not send abroad for foodstuffs which we couiti well grow ouriel.xs.’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 July 1924, Page 8
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171WHEAT GROWING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 July 1924, Page 8
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