POTATOES RESHIPPED
GOVERNMENT DELAY CAUSES CANCELLATION OF ORDER [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 10. A shipment of one hundred tons of Victorian potatoes, ’ which arrived by tho Kartigi on July 22, is to be reconsigned back to Australia by the Ulimaroa on Friday. Tile new regulations regarding tho importation of potatoes wore gazetted when the shipment was on tho water. In response to cablegrams, the Australian exporters forwarded certificates complying with the regulations. Samples were forwarded to Wellington with tho necessary papers. Several days elapsed withous any word from the Government, and the Auckland merchants, who were to take delivery, decided to cancel tho order. The Auckland agent of the Victorian company then received instructions to ship the potatoes back to Australia. Before the necessary an angements were made the Department of Agriculture issued authority for the landing of the potatoes. The agent then sought further advice from the company, and to-day a cablegram arrived confirming previous instructions to the effect that the potatoes should bo returned to Victoria.
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Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 11
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