AGITATION GROWING
LIFTING OF EMBARGO
N.Z. POTATOES IN AUSTRALIA
(Received February 21, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The agitation for the removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes is growing stronger daily. Advice was received from Canberra last night that certain Ministers were likely to raise the matter in a Federal Cabinet meeting which is to be held in Sydney shortly. While not anxious to embarrass the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons), whose Tasmanian constituency supplies the bulk of the potato requirements of the mainland, they feel that they can no longer withstand the pressure of Government supporters who are clamouring for relief from the famine prices which consumers in the eastern States are compelled to pay for Tasmanian potatoes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 9
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122AGITATION GROWING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 9
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