RELIEF OF FAMINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 9

RELIEF OF FAMINE

Sir, —I have read the various letters appearing from time to time in your paper *on the question of growing more wheat. What is the use of writing such letters? The position is clear enough. Never was there a time in the t history of our Do* minion when wheat was needed as now. That we can grow our own wheat is never questioned. That we can grow wheat at a reasonable price, no one doubts. We import wheat at a much higher figure than we give our own farmers. The Government is quite prepared to go on doing this wtih complete indifference to world conditions. No arguments, however reasonable, will ever lead them to consider giving the farmers the least justifiable advantage. Is this not plain? They claim to be philanthropists, or something like that, but only when it suits' themselves They make much of the depression years, and those who then had scarcely enough to eat—personally I never knew any—but outside our own Dominion others can die if saving them m"ans giving the farmers a little more. Then why write, like myself, and just waste our time?—l am, etc., G. B.