PRICE OF POTATOES
BIG DROP IN SYDNEY FALLING OFF IN CONSUMPTION (Rec. August 5, 10.15 p.m.) Sydney, August 5. The prohibitive price of potatoes has led to a diminution of consumption, with the result that the price fell today £4 per ton to £lB. Merchants think the houesewives’ boycott, coupled with the threat to bring in New Zealand potatoes to Australia, is largely responsible for the drop. Tasmanian growers disclaim responsibility for the famine prices and declare that the bad season and floods affected the crops.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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86PRICE OF POTATOES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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