TASMANIAN GROWERS’ ACTION.
SHARP CRITICISM IN SYDNEY. “SOMETHING SINISTER.” SYDNEY, This Day. The “Daily News” publishes comments on the potato situation by Mr R. B. Walker, M.L.A./ and Sir Frederick Stewart, a number of the Federal House of Representatives and a former Minister of Customs and Industry. Mr Walker says that Tasmanian growers have been hiding millions of potatoes in underground pits to keep prices in Sydney famine-high. Now they have flooded the market to choke New Zealand growers out. Sir Frederick Stewart s^ays: “There is something sinister about this potato glut in Sydney. If this business angers the New Zealand Government it will do our citrus men a lot of harm.” ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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112TASMANIAN GROWERS’ ACTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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