WHEAT-SOWING CHECKED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23358, 29 May 1939, Page 12

WHEAT-SOWING CHECKED

jFERTILISER ORDERS DELAYED j | REPRESENTATIONS TO MINISTER ! ! [by telegraph—own correspondent] CHKISTCHTTRCH. Sunday Delay in receiving supplies of fertiI lisers for wheat-sowing has caused Can- ! terbury farmers some concern in the j last few weeks, and formal representaj tions 011 the subject have now been j made to the Minister of Industries and j Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, i The delay has been the subject of i discussion at branch meetings of the | New Zealand Farmers' Union throughj out the wheat-growing areas, and the ! request was sent on to Mr. Sullivan iby the provincial executive of the j union. I • At this stage of tho year, it is stated, ( each day's delay is counted as serious, because" of the possibility that a bad break in the weather at the end of May might postpone sowing until the spring. Last year some sowing postponed from late autumn to tho spring had to be abandoned because a heavy winter's rainfall had made tho ground too sodden, and farmers are anxious to avoid any such failure for the 1910 crop. Tho protest has been sent to Mr. Sullivan, it is stated, because _ the farmers claim that the position is of vital importance in view of the Minister's efforts to have a much greater aci'eage under wheat this year.