TAINTED WHEAT.
GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED BY PRESS. [Anst. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 5.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Last night. The “Sun” charges the New South Wales Government with attempting to coerce millers to make flour from tainted wheat. This wheat, the paper states, was part of the 1916-17 crop which the British Government rejected. It was damaged by the weather, contaminated by dead mice and other vermin, is unfit for human consumption and might cause a disease known as Rope Plague. The “Sun” adds: “Some millers have refused this wheat, demanding clean grain, of which a plentiful supply was available. ’ ’
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14105, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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99TAINTED WHEAT. Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14105, 3 May 1919, Page 5
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