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Use Wheat Instead Of Rice !
A PLEA that, in order to conserve over seas exchange, the employers of native labour in Papua and the Mandated Territory should be encouraged to supply hour and wheatmeal as a staple food to their labourers, instead of rice, has been made by Mr. R. A. Laws, of Wau, T.N.G.
Actually, there is little difference in the onct nf rirp as Inndpd in the Islands norts cost of rice, as lanaea in tne isianas poi ts, and Australian floui and .wheatmeal, but, Of course, if the policy suggested were followed the economic difference would cyvpnl' r T T Hp phano’P-nvpr woulri sptvp
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out a large item of overseas exchange, and it would substantially aid the Aus tralian wheat-growing and flour-milling inrinetrioc m 2,, .
The natives accustomed to rice, now prefer rice to wheaten products. But that is all a matter of custom. From the diet ary point Of view, the advantage probably lies with wheat.