LEFT IN THE AIR
WHEAT GROWERS IN GISBORNE
LEFT WITHOUT A MARKET
“Gisborne farmers who grew wheat this season at the request* of the Government have been left in the air,” said a member of the Poverty Bay Farmers’ Union at a meeting of the executive when commenting on the fact that there was to be no fixed price for wheat grown in the district. Promises made by the Government regarding the price of wheat did not hold good in Gisborne, it was stated. It was on the basis of these promises that the acreage in wheat had been increased’ substantially and now growers were left without a market. In the past the local crop had been disposed of locally, but this season there would be a surplus estimated at 1500 sacks and, growers were left to make the best deal they could with merchants.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3250, 9 April 1943, Page 7
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145LEFT IN THE AIR Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3250, 9 April 1943, Page 7
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