BRITAIN’S AGRICULTURE.
ON DOWN GRADE. (Received Wednesday, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Sir A. H. B. Sinclair, in submitting the Liberal Party’s motion deploring the Government’s failure to restore agriculture, expressed the opinion that Sir C. E. Bledisloe (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture; was suffering from the paralysing and insidious disease called complacency. Britain had reached the smallest arable area in its agricultural history, with four hundred thousand fewer landworkers than half a century ago. Temporary assistance here and there was useless. Bold, comprehensive measures were essential.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 5
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