PRICE OF POTATOES
BIG DROP IN SYDNEY
BOYCOTT AND THBEAT *O IMPORT
CulUd Press Association—By EI«o«tio *«!»- erspn—Copyright. SYDNEY, sth August. The prohibitive price of potatoes has led to a diminution of consumption^ with the result that the price fell today £4 per ton to £18-. Merchants think the housewives' 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 -ie< clare that the bad season, and flood*' affected tho crops. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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88PRICE OF POTATOES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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