NEXT YEAR'S WHEAT CROP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10119, 29 October 1917, Page 7

NEXT YEAR'S WHEAT CROP.

(Fbom Odb Pabuamentaby . Repobteb.) i WELLINGTON, Oct. 26. | "Docs the Government intend, before the session ends, to claim any powers to com- |.'| iho sowing of wheat in tin' wheat lamN ol the Dominion up to, say, 250,000 acres'/" asked Mr Lee (Oarnarn) in the House today. It would,he too laic for the 1918-19 • a.son to do this next session, as prcpara- j i inns for putting the wheat, in had to be' begun in July. The growers wished to know if pnre.-> were going to be fixed, | Tito Minister for Agriculture said aeonfcrencc would !>t> held iu Christ'church shortlv to ilea] with next season's wheat crop. ' tic had drafted proposals for a guaranteed price for the 1918-19 crop. j Replying to a further question by Mr Anstey, Mr .Mac Donald said the Governm'Til had never had under consideration a proposal to compel fanners to grow wheat. i In' Government believed that if the farmi i were guaranteed a reasonable price, it would be better to leave them to grow the what without compulsion, lie would nor risk Cabinet, to compel anyone to grow pertain things. People with pints of I hive ' or lour acres were advised to grow vegr tables, and were given the best assistance and advice by Government officers, i