BIG POTATO CROP BUT NO MARKET
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL, June 3. Potato growers in Southland are in a quandary. They don't know what to do with their crops. There is a big surplus and very little demand. Merchants are being inundated with applications from growers to find an outlet for crops.
A city merchant said this morning that the oosition had been brought about by the Government appealing for an increased acreage .and then failing to find a ready outlet for any surplus grown
Southland is one of the largest seed Droducing areas in the Dominion for Arran Chief and King Edvyard varieties.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 6
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