PUKEKOHE POTATOES.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 12

PUKEKOHE POTATOES.

Exceptional activity in digging has created, quite a glut in potatoes, and Pukekohe merchants are asking only £6 5s on trucks, etates the Auckland "Herald."' However, even this exceptionally low price, much lower than in former years, is not receiving: much attention in the city, except for orders to he sent inland by rail. Merchents are inundated with offers at lower rates from the districts close round the . jcity, and these they can sell at 7s, packed iii- bags of about 601b. This price is only Nominal, for the market is very sensitive, •nd a forced sale is often made at a reiluction which must leave the grower hardpy.any net return, while a cessation of digriPQg for a couple of days would soon put up [the price. Demand is now at about its lowest/except for %hose who are laying in a j«tock for the holidays, for there are so '.many people who can get all they want iior their households for the next few Veeks. Southern quotations are L a little easier since the rain came, and Auckland merchants are offering at £7 10s on the vHarf, to arrive from March onwards.