SHORTAGE OF POTATOES
“ENOUGH NEXT YEAR”
MR POLSON’S HOPES
The hope that next year everybody would have enough potatoes was expressed by the Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes (the Hon. W. J, Poison) last night when he met primary production councils' in Christchurch. "It is better to have one short famine now than one this year and a worse one next year,” he said. The potato shortage had created considerable criticism, said Mr Poison, The fact was that Australia, America, and South Africa were just as short as New Zealand; indeed, Australia was more so. When he had found that stocks were less than had been imagined, he had been compelled to cut everybody’s supplies short, to get enough seed to grow next year’s crop.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23752, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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