DEAR POTATOES
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and
Reuter.
LONDON, February 18.
The frost is reducing stocks of potatoes, and is interfering with their distribution. The War Cabinet, after conferring with wholesalers and retailers, decided that growers are entitled to charge dealers until the end of March 180s \>er ton, and thereafter 200s. Growers and "triers may charge retailers 210s until the end of March, and thereafter 2505. The retailers' price was fixed at l£d per lb tc the end of March, l|d thereafter to th< end of June.
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Evening Star, Issue 16352, 19 February 1917, Page 4
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