REAL TRUTH ABOUT SOUTHERN POTATOES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 4

REAL TRUTH ABOUT SOUTHERN POTATOES

Reports recently circulated nte that wholesale prices of Souttea potatoes have been manipulated> e Auckland. One report which n* come to our notice is as follows."There was a fear that anjfr tenance of the racket yfe« Auckland merchants £5 to £6aw profit on South Island pota* would lead to the porting Australian potatoes, at J to £6 a ton in Sydney. Sp Auckland merchants dropped n» prices from the £16 to £18 a ton to £12 10/ to £13 10/ a ton-aw numbers of retailers had vm* fair supplies at the higher SP l "* In order that the public may™ be misinformed on the actual aw* tion, and to prove that the aw« statement is quite inaccurate, we» out hereunder our sale prices for Southern po»t» covering the period of the past tan* months for each trading week enow as follow:—

Mav 6 £13 . .May 13 £13 nn . Mav 20 £12 10/ Mav 27 £12 10/ .June 3 £12 ... June 10 £H I Q/ June 17 £12 June 24 £13 10/ Julv 1 £14 10. Julys! £i|io/ Julv 15 £J4 10' Julv 22 £14 10/ July 29 , £» August o £J4 August 12 .... £14 The following points could, tne. fore, be noted which disprove * above rumour: — . 1. That our maximum price o* ail this period was £14-10/. v»

! The assertion that there were p£ f:t, of «;.- or CO pc r ion is ridgj* unci we W.K.I i welcome of our books by some Go v *'"" fit .- uftkial. To use the word ..P^ otlfn-i.u-anins "jn-uss profit.' «hf clime* transport and any other_ co= micht easily convey an "WgV imorf.=>ion. Therefore only n*l i.t, c lu,u!d be reierred to estimate That our result oi tm-J , : , trading in Southern potato*i fit show less than 10/ per ton ne • P de . Untrue rumours. *W£f%&o- - to uoset the friendly :>J P between the P^frJ r J£V and wholesale merchants sure. nr. b? cle-.irr.cu by finer than - i f c=^ e! i> \ TURNER, I uting anage Tr'-J- ---| Turners u:id Growers, U* iP.B.A.;