TAINTED WHEAT.
PRESS ALLEGATIONS.
Bj Cable — Preu JLitodation — Copyright. SYDNEY, May 2.
The "Sun" charges the Government of New South Wales with attempting to coerce millers to make flour from tainted wheat. This ■wheat, the paper stales, was part of the 1916-17 crop which the British Government rejected. It was damaged by weather and contaminated by dead mice and other vermirr. It was unfit for human consumption, and might have caused the disease known as rope plague. j The "Sun" adds that soriie millers refused this wheat, demanding clean grain, of which a plentiful supply was available.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1628, 3 May 1919, Page 9 (Supplement)
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97TAINTED WHEAT. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1628, 3 May 1919, Page 9 (Supplement)
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