MUST LIFT BAN.
ON N.Z. POTATOES. "Ruthless Profiteering" By Hobart Growers. £30 A TON IN SYDNEY. United Prose Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. At a meeting at the municipal markets wholesale buyers and sellers of vegetables decided to demand that the ban on New Zealand potatoes be lifted temporarily to counter the "ruthless profiteering" by Tasmanian growers. The Master Fish Merchants' Association has asked its members to boycott potatoes. The secretary of the association said members would almost unanimously observe the boycott. Fishmongers have to pay as much as £30 a ton for Australian potatoes. In New Zealand potatoes are £4 a ton. "Because of the absurd embargo in Australia on New Zealand potatoes we cannot buy them, and as a protest we have imposed this boycott," said the secretary.
Commenting on reports that Mr. Savage had expressed willingness to lift the Dominion's embargo on Australian citrus fruits if the Commonwealth allowed in New Zealand potatoes, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons said: "The time is inopportune for Mr. Savage to make such a statement.
"Australia has always been willing to discuss trading arrangements with New Zealand, but Mr. Savage's Government has imposed drastic restrictions on imports from Australia."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 11
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