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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 12

(Published by Arrangement.) EMPLOYMENT AND THE WHEAT INDUSTRY; |,j / •*.' —i —„ . 1 , ; I;. With unemployment in New Zealand at ;its.present acute stage little excuse can be found for those "who would withdraw tho support accorded the wheat-grower; letting him practically 110 alternative to sheepfarming. Considerably loss labour is required on ,shoep farms than on wheat farms,- More-. over,v. most flourmills' employees would !have.-to -bo as, flour, would ,be •imported' ihstesid', of wheat," experience 'having shown that it is cheaper to import flour than to import wheat to bo milled in New Zealand. , —. ; > Tho abandonment of wheat-growing would'mean unemployment not only for those, engaged on farms and in mills, but also.for those, employed.on threshing and hauling phnts, in twine works, in. making agricultural implements, in grain stores and offices and in the transport services. • Additional thousands would be thrown idle at a time when it L is essential for, every man possible to bo profitably pccupied. There is no possible advantage "Ihat' could accrue in other directions to justify such havoc to one.of the vital kqy industries of the Dominion, ■ . j