POTATO MARKET QUIET
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 25. The local potato market is still quiet, with quotations, which are largely nominal, again easier on those ruling earlier in the week. Quotations in the city yesterday varied UP to £16 a ton on trucks, but the maximum price mentioned by most merchants was £15.
It is reported locally that the first shipment to be brought into New Zealand this season is landing at Auckland on September 1. and will consist of 60 tons, of which 20 tons have been purchased by a Christchurch merchant. A further 1000 tons have been booked to land at Auckland on September *\ with other- shipments of 120 tons landing on September 29, and 200 tons on October 16.
Business in chaff is still very small, with quotations at £4 a ton on trucks.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 13
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