Potatoes
Sir,—The difficulties over the last decade or so that New Zealand has encountered in trade with Australia, particularly in potatoes, have become an insoluble puzzle to me, as to Bernard Smythe. While listening to his session on Sunday evening I was remindeid again that in the early years of World War I I was engaged in the profitable trade of producing and shipping potatoes to South America. The acreages involved were terrific, and it appeared that the demand was insatiable. Why, then, is it impossible to ship potatoes 1200 miles across the Tasman and land them in marketable condition? I agree with Bernard Smythe that there is something rotten in the State of Denmark.—Yours, etc., PUZZLED. October 19, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 20
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