AUSTRALIAN WHEAT GROWING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16037, 23 January 1918, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT GROWING.

MINISTER URGES A REDUCTION. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and NX. Cable Assn (Received Jan. 23, 9.10 a.rn.) SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Mr. Ashford, Minister of Lands, addressing the' Producers’ Conference, advocated reducing the wheat area to the minimum sufficient to meet the domestic , requirements of New South Wales and Queenslarid, owing to financial and shipping problems. Ho added: “If wo cannot have meat and wool as well as wheat, let ns have whichever is most satisfactory’ in all phases of production and profit.”