THE POTATO MARKET.
~ PROSPECTS OF SHARP ADVANCE. Referring to the prospects of the potato market. Mr W. O. Long, the well-known Gisborne produce merchant. expressed the opinion yesterday that the outlook was not too cheerful from the consumers’ point of view, while he expected that the price of potatoes would shortly show a sharp advance, in sympathy with the Svdnev market. Mr Long pointed to "the fact that there was serious trouble with' blight in Canterbury and Southland while on the Taieri plains which was one of the best potato district’s in the Dominion, the floods of 1917 ■ had prevented large areas being put down in tubers. These facts, coupled with the. rising prices in Australia, he considered, meant that the potato outlook was much worse than was anticipated at the beginning of the season and prices must advance.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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139THE POTATO MARKET. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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