FRENCH HARVEST
SHORTAGE OF WHEAT, BUT ' OTHER CROPS GOOD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.. • PARIS, August 31. r The French wheat harvest ,is estimated at 75,000,000 quintals, necessitating the importation of from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 quintals. . The vine crops are exceptionally ’ good, except in Burgundy' .and the East. The sugar beet crop fa very heavy, and there, will be a large ( surplus available for. export. WHOLEMEAL BREAD COMPULSORY. (Received September 1, 0.55 p.m.) '■ PARIS; August 31. Owing to the poor wheat, crop and the necessity for importing twenty million qumtafa - before the 1923 harvest, the Government has forbidden the nee of apy thing but wholemeal for breadtasking throughout France.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 6
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