LOW PRICES
SOUTHERN POTATOES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 23.
The Canterbury grain and produce markets continue to be very dull, there being little activity in any section. A shipment of potatoes is due to leave Lyttelton by the Port Melbourne next week for Montevideo. Mr. F. R. Picot, Director of Internal Marketing, who is in Christchureh, said that he had seen all the grading stores and felt sure that the quantity required to fill the shipment, originally announced as 3000 tons, would be supplied. The shipment has not made any difference to the price of potatoes on the local market, which remains at £1 10s a ton on trucks for whites, and £1 15s for Dakotas. The North Island is reported to be well supplied still, and few orders are being received. The small seeds market is still very quiet. Some retail orders have been fulfilled, but wholesale business is small.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 13
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