NO FOOD SHORTAGE
AMERICAN REASSURANCE Received Aug. 14, 5.15 p.n). WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Interviewed by the Press to-day, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wallace, gave a reassurance that nothing in , the nature of a food shortage would from the short crops. He said that despite the drought the wheat J production would be adequate for domestic needs with the higher prices ! probably inducing enough planting to 1 provide a 150,000,000 bushels export- . able surplus in 1937-38. This would : probably reduce the world price 20 to 30 cents a bushel. I For the current year he said he did 1 not expect imports of wheat and i maize to exceed those of 1935. ! Answering charges that the Administration’s curtailment programme was in any way responsible for the situation, he said that actually there were more acres of wheat harvested this year th/in in the 1928-32 average.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 9
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145NO FOOD SHORTAGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 9
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