ENGLISH POTATO PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 6

ENGLISH POTATO PRICES

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —With the outrageous price that, potatoes are fetching at the present time, when you can get them, I should like to place l^he enclosed cutting from an English newspaper before the notice of the suffering public. In this glorious, fertile country of ours, far from the war zone, we have had to pay as much as Is 6d a pound for potatoes, and yet in the front line of the battle, which is England, the price at present is ljd a pound. The highest price reached was 5d a pound last year. This is for new potatoes, too. To tell the people at Home what we have had to pay for a necessary of life I quote the. old song, "They'd never believe me." Who is responsible for this—l am. etc., W. A. WALTON. [The cutting enclosed reads as foli lows:—New Potatoes Cheaper. 4|d lb Limit. —New potatoes are to be cheaper this year. Under a Ministry of Food marketing scheme, maximum retail prices in Britain will be: May 7-June 10, 4£d; June 11-17, 4d; June 18-24, 3.Jd; June 25-July 1, 3d; July 2-8, 23d; July 9-15, 2*d; July 16-22, 2d; July 23-29. 13d; July 30-August 5, l£d. Last year the maximum price at the beginning of the season was 5d and the lowest 2|-d. 'In the chief producing areas the [Ministry will take over.supplies sur- ! plus to local needs and consign them to deficiency areas.]