The Herald

100 years ago

SALISBURY, 16 January 1917. — We hope and believe that the movement initiated by the Rhodesia Resources Committee-which is, of course, working in close alliance with the kindred body having headquarters in Johannesburg — will be the means of imparting a real and much-needed stimulus to the production of grain in Rhodesia.

From the distinctly local point of view the suggestion of the committee-that His Honour the Administrator, following up his success in ensuring to our farmers a satisfactory minimum price for the surplus maize available for export in 1917, should invite the Imperial Government to extend the guarantee to the crop of 1918 appears so reasonable and businesslike that we are convinced that His Honour will do everything possible to effect such an arrangement.

Hitherto British Governments have been extraordinarily chary of entering compacts of this kind.