CRITICAL STATE
FOOD POSITION IN EASTERN COUNTRIES P.A. AUCKLAND, June 7. The food situation was most critical in the monsoonal &rea of Asia, said Dr R Ogilvie Buchanan, reader in geography at the University College, London, who is visiting New Zealand at the invitation of the Canterbury University College Council. Burma, Siam and French Indo-China, which formerly supplied rice to denselypopulated Eastern areas, were producing barely sufficient for their own needs. This area contained nearly half' the population of the world. Questioned regarding New Zealand s future prosperity, Dr Buchanan thought Britain would not in the forsceable future be as good a market as in the past, but he could not see a better market capable of absorbing New Zealand's surpluses. The obvious alternative ought to be the United States, but, apart from wool, it seemed likely that the American policy would continue largely to exclude New Zealand produce.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26792, 8 June 1948, Page 2
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