POTATO IN BREAD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16797, 22 July 1920, Page 4

POTATO IN BREAD.

UNFAVOURABLE WHEAT OUTLOOK. Per Press Association. TIMAR U, July 21. . At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce, specialty convened to consider tho wheat shortage, Mr. Newman, manager of tho Farmers’ Co-op. Association, stated that some local millo must close down about the begining of October for lack of wheat. After a di.-a nssion, MNewman moved a motion urging' on the Government tin desirability ol taking steps at one. l to economise in the available supply by increasing tho porcenfago taken from wheat by the millers and encouraging a larger use of potatoes in bread, and, if deemed necessary, to introduce some system of rationing. This was carried unanimously. Another , motion was carried urging tho Government to do eveifrthing possible to got the Australian embargo on the importation of potatoes removed, otherwise much of the large crop -would go to waste, to the groat loss of tho growers,