AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.
GREAT SHORTAGE FEARED
NEW SOUTH WALES YIELD. ACTION BY GOVERNMENT. By Telefftaph— Association Copyright. (Received November 17, midnight.) Sydney, November 16. The Premier, Mr. W. A. Holman, in a statement regarding the wheat position, said that from information collected by the Minister for Agriculture it appeared that the forthcoming harvest would be
insufficient by about 1,000,000 bags to supply the amount required for consumption in the Commonwealth. While New South Wales would have a surplus, there would be a shortage in the other Stages and it would be necessary to import-, probably from Canada. He announced that the Government intended to ask the House to-morrow Jot power to purchase the whole of tho new wheat crop in New South Wales at a fixed price which would probably bo 5s per bushel in advance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15769, 18 November 1914, Page 8
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