A Canterbury farmer, in a letter to a Wanganui resident, states that some of the southern farmers who are making such a noise about wheat dumping deserve hut little consideration. He recalls the time during the Great War when high rates were ruling for beef and mutton, and a lot of the so-called patriotic farmers dropped wheat-growing and went for the big stakes. As a matter of fact, a Minister of the Crown had to make a special visit to a certain locality, and beg the farmers to grow wheat, telling them at the same time the very critical position the Empire was in.
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Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 175, 10 March 1927, Page 5
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