POTATO IMPORTS FOR NORTH ISLAND
THREE SHIPMENTS FROM CALIFORNIA (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 7. Supplies of Californian potatoes will reach New Zealand in three shipments in June, July, and August. The two syndicates marketing the potatoes in the Dominion—one in Wellington .and the other in Auckland—have licences to import 4750 tons. A director of the Far Eastern Steam Ship Company of Hong Kong (Mr T. Lewin) said on his arrival from San Francisco that the first 1000 tons of Californian potatoes would be in Wellington by June 17. Mr Lewin said the potatoes would travel as refrigerated cargo, and that New Zealand frozen meat in packages would be taken on the return trip. “Your New Zealand meat is a little too sinewy for the American taste, but we can market it there at a competitive price,” he said. A spokesman for the syndicate of Auckland fruit merchants who are importing American potatoes said that their main shipment of 3000 tons would arrive in the Melbourne Star in July. He would give no indication of the price at which the imported potatoes would retail.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 7
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