MAXIMUM PRICES
FIXATION BY TRIBUNAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Owing to climatic influences the early potato crop yields this season have been below normal. Likewise all these crops have been late in reaching maturity. Consequently the greater part of the demand for early potatoes has had to be met from Pukekohe from a crop which is substantially lower than normal and is now to all intents and purposes exhausted. Prices which in the ordinary wav would at this "time of the year be from £12 to £14 a ton wholesale have risen to the unusually high level of about £46 a ton. With a view to providing reasonable protection to the consumer and at the same time ensuring a reasonable return to the grower and the middlemen the Price Tribunal has by way of price order fixed the maximum ceiling prices' The order states that the maximum price which may be charged bv growers for potatoes of fair averacre quality, inclusive of any brokerage or other selling commission ordinarily payable by growers, shall not exceed a sum equivalent to £20 a ton i.0.b., S.I„ at grower's elatioiv ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 5
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186MAXIMUM PRICES Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 304, 24 December 1941, Page 5
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