TAINTED WHEAT.
A NEWSPAPER’S ALLEGATION.
(Reuter’s Telegramal
SYDNEY, May 2. The Sun newspaper charges the New South Wales Government with attempting to coerce millers to make flour from tainted wheat. This wheat, thp paper states, was part of the -1916-17 crop which the British Government, rejected. Tt wa„ damaged by the weather and' contaminated by dead mice and other vermin. It was unfit for human consumption, and might cause the disease known is rope plague. The Sun adds that some millers;refused thi s wheat, demanding clean grain, of . which a plentiful supply was ava'liable.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 3
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94TAINTED WHEAT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 3
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