WHEAT SHORTAGE

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 9

WHEAT SHORTAGE

CANADIAN PROSPECTS. LESS LABOUR REQUIRED. AMERICAN PRICES RISE. (Australia!) Cress Association—United Service.) Received 11.55 a.m. to-dav. VANCOUVER, July 17. A message from Winnipeg states that with a wheat crop estimated at approximately half of the 1928 yield, employment officials state that only 25 per cent, of the. harvest help required in 1928 will be needed to deal with this year’s crop. Last year 50,000 harvest workers were brought from Eastern Canada and 15.000 from Britain, but it was unlikely, they stated, that during the coming season any Britishers would bo brought to Canada to deal with the harvest. NEW YORK, July 17. Future deliveries of wheat swept to new high levels as prospects of a world shortage before the harvesting of the 1930 crop have arisen, and the Canadian spring planting has shrunk under high temperatures. Trading was wild to-day. Late estimates from the North-Western wheat areas indicated that there is a shortage of about four hundred million bushels in the North American spring crop