SAVE THE SHIPS
“ Don't let us put too great a strain on the ships,” said Mr Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, at the British Sugar Beet Society’s luncheon, at which he was the chief guest, recently. “ Fifty per cent, of the food consumed by the cows (hat produce our winter milk is imported. We may for a time buy our food from the world below its production cost, but if we forget bow to nroducc it for ourselves we shall look foolish when the day comes for the world to turn round to us and say: ‘Pay us the full price.”' Before the luncheon Mr Elliot presented oyer 160 prizes to farmers who had grown beet in the nast year under the Ministry’s educational and research scheme.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22910, 18 June 1936, Page 8
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127SAVE THE SHIPS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22910, 18 June 1936, Page 8
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