POTATOES USED FOR STOCK FEED
FREE CARRIAGE BY RAIL [From Our Parliamentary Reporter..! WELLINGTON, August 28. To facilitate the disposal of surplus potatoes, in Canterbury, the Government is bearing the cost ot carriage by rail of such quantities as may be sold tb farmers for use as stock feed, the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) announced to-day. The area within which potatoes mrv be railed lies between Palmerston in the south and Waiau and Parnassus in the north. The Minister said that experienced sheep farmers occasionally utilised surplus potatoes for their breeding ewes with excellent results, and a wider extension of this practice should lie possible at the present time with the delivered cost at a relatively low level. Any farmer in these area's who desired a supply of potatoes and had made the necessary purchasing arrangements, should communicate with the local inspector cf stock of the Department of Agriculture, who. wh«m he was satisfied that the notatoes would be used for stock feed, would issue the appropriate permit, which would be acted upon by the Railways Department.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23111, 29 August 1940, Page 6
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