POTATOES
Sir.—lt would, I suggest, be vastly Interesting to your readers if reliable information could be supplied stating the actual amount of “old” potatoes still on hand in various quarters, in order to indicate if there has in* actual fact been a real shortage of potatoes in Canterbury over the last season.— Yours, etc., FULL INVESTIGATION INDICATED December 6, 1956. (“The board knows of no old potatoes in the hands of the growers at the present time, said the secretary of the Potato Board (Mr N. j McHugh). “Probably the only old potatoes on hand now are those held by fish shops, restaurants and hotels which stocked up early in the season against the threatened shortage, as also did many consumers, and so made it worse. If shipping figures can be taken as an indication, then the shortage was in fact very real. In 1955 the South Island shipped to the North Island about 550.000 sacks, but this year only about 314,000 were shipped.”]
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28155, 19 December 1956, Page 11
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