TASMANIAN POTATOES
RECORD SHIPMENTS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. March 13, 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 13. Shipments of potatoes from Tasmania to the mainland States, last week, amounted to 50,000 sacks, an all-time record. The “Herald’s” Burnie correspondent says that, while one reason for the record deliveries was the desire of farmers to market their supplies before the New Zealand potatoes were admitted, there has been a remarkable change in crop prospects, resulting from rain in the past month. Several traders expressed the view that, the relaxation of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes has come too late, and that Australia now has sufficient supplies.
“SOMETHING SINISTER." (Recd. March 13, 1.30 p.mj. SYDNEY, March 13. The “Daily News” publishes comments by Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A., and Sir Frederick Stewart, M.P. Mr. ’Walker says that Tasmanian growers have been hiding millions of potatoes in underground pits, to keep the Sydney prices famine-high. Now they have flooded the market, to choke, New Zealand growers out. Sir Frederick Stewart says: There is something sinister about this potato glut in Sydney. If this business angers the New Zealand Government, it will do our citrus rnen a lor of harm.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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