CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE N.Z. WHEAT YIELD

Wanganui Chronicle, 19 January 1948, Page 2

CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE N.Z. WHEAT YIELD

(P.A.) Christchurch, Jan. 15. A national campaign to Increase the wheat acreage to the target set by the Aid for Britain National Council Was opened in Canterbury this week with a visit from the chairman of the Council (Mr. F. P. Walsh). “Everyone should know that the most tangible means of assisting Britain is to increase production, ana wheat presents a world and national problem so serious there is none other that must be tackled more urgently or with mtire fervour and energy,” said Mr. Walsh, in a statement. "Production is one side of the world wheat problem, and shipping is another. New Zealand, by growing more wheat, can relieve part ot Britain's great burden in both fields of supply and transport." The National Council was confident that with the facts before farmers on Wheatland, the necessary response would be lorthcoming said Mr. Walsh. The farmers had not yet failed to rise to the occasion, and this was comparable in seriousness with the days of the threat of isolation by war when growers achieved high targets. Mr. Walsh said he had attended meetings with Federated Farmers, United Wheatgrowers, flourmillers, manure merchants, association brokers and stock and station agents, implement importers, the district Aid for Britain committee, the wheat committee, and the Department of Agriculture. In the next two weeks, more intimate contacts with actual growers and prospective growers of wheat would be made throughout Canterbury. Plans were being made in other smaller, but relatively as important, wheat growing areas of both the North and South Islands to increase production.