Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

FEED SHORTAGE IN NORTH

POSITION ALMOST DESPERATE

GRAIN FROM AUSTRALIA WANTED “Because of the total absence of winter feed of any description for stock, I am strongly of the opinion that you should allow either Australian, Algerian oats or Tasmanian oats, whichever is the cheaper, into Canterbury and North Otago free of duty. Present prices of New Zealand oats are approximately 3/9 to 4/- a bushel on trucks, ex Southland, and very few are offering. It is impossible to obtain bran supplies. It is definitely safe to say that the position is becoming more desperate day by day, and, because of the shipping shortage, your immediate help in the above direction will be of national and Empire advantage.” The above telegram was despatched by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., to the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) and the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan). “The position is well nigh desperate, ’ Mr Burnett informed a reporter. “Never in all my experience in South Canterbury have I found the province entering the wintei' so short of winter feed for stock. So many factors have been responsible—the diamond-back moth, the blight, the white butterfly, and the, drought conditions earlier in the season. “The danger is that farmers will be forced to sacrifice their best conditioned ewes,” Mr Burnett concluded, “by being compelled to send them to the freezing works owing to the scarcity of feed. ’ On discussing the matter with a business man who is in close touch with the farming industry, the reporter was informed that, although the Government had agreed to meet farmers by concessions in railway charges, the fact remained that the price of feed, even in Southland, was almost prohibitive. The importation of oats would do much to help the sheep farmers through what promised to be the most disastrous winter experienced for upwards of 40 years. ___________

Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19400420.2.110.11

Bibliographic details

Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 14

Word Count
315

FEED SHORTAGE IN NORTH Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 14

FEED SHORTAGE IN NORTH Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 14

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert