POTATO EMBARGO
PARTIALLY LIFTED [BY CABLE —jpp.ESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. March 10. 8 a.m.). CANBERRA. March 9. Mr. Lyons announced that the Government has decided to permit the importation of 250 tons of potatoes weekly from New Zealand, for the next four weeks. He added that it was not proposed to permit unlimited importations, but so to regulate the entry that Australian growers would receive adequate protection. , He said that the Government had always been ready to protect the Australian potato-gro\ver, who at times encountered serious difficulties, but, in justice to the consumers, it must be agreed that the present acute shortage should be relieved.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1939, Page 7
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