CULTIVATION OF CROPS.
IMAINTAININO THE FOOD SUPPLIES.
" A resolution from* the Waip&ra Comity 1 'Council, urging .that -owing to the serious decline m the quantity of the , ; ld % s foodstuffs, everyone With a small-area .of 'land should cultivate it and groiw potatoes, eitc., and thereby I help the individual and. the nation, was placed before the Cook County Counci 1 toniay. Tlie resolution also urged the necessity of helping rto keep tlie nations ' canaries from j becoming empty, and t th^t & personal canvas respecting these . mitters should be conducted throughout tlie district..: . ' ' " •' !
The chairman remarked they did hot explain where th& labor: was fo oomf j f rom. :--Qp. . Witters said h© tliought the : suggestion a good one to utilise the staall plots m the .suburban area, -iut itli© district was. not a 'suitable ones: for ! raising patato^, owing to the <?rop beditg subject ' to blights of. recent years. They {knew *Ke farmers "SVere all. short htuad-i ed, 'but .he thouglit tliat' they shtfuid! | niake ian .-effort m the 'direction indicafed, r Some' farmer's were" cbntemplatiirig' putting down* their, stubble ground m grass on ■account of an expected shortage of.labor, but' he thought they ■lvould.'-be i well advised to put down, .a^.f ew acres 1 o£;' wheat. .•: or ' oats. 1 Proceeding 5 / r.the: speaker ' urged 1 that f armers should ■ plant kumai : as, wliidi had proved buc-xcepsful'..i-r».r'' ?.' ,' ..y ' '"' '". k bbuiiciller : But they won't' keep. ! ;Ci*. Witters said I ' that avos because tl»© peopfe.did not- uhdei-stand the liotis- 1 ing of kumaa-as. • . • :: •' ■•■ i .After further discussion Cr. Witters rripved that the Council shbuW cii ; cu{ar- ; ige ' fawners -to ' grow foodstuffs/, at least ' sufficient -to' support .tholmsfelves.— Seconidied . by; : Cr. Jex- 'Blake,. 'and carried; . Cr. Jex Blake further ' moved that to spow,. that Councillors were m .earnest, each. Councillor should; put m > five acres |of wheat and an area- of potatoes, with ;a view; 1 .-to. assisting 'the nations food : s(rpply.,. ■.-.»>."'■-. ' ;: , '■■■/.. ; ■-■. ; .■ '.
| Oi% Reynolds ipointed but tliaf the crops -suggested' were -unsuitable, and it iwas agreed 'to substitute the word ("cereal," tj*e. riiotiori being carried. I The- ohairniart : iJiope» Councillors .■won't forget' their pledge. • ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14283, 27 April 1917, Page 5
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