N.Z. POTATO PRICES

Grey River Argus, 24 February 1944, Page 3

N.Z. POTATO PRICES

LIMITS NEXT HALF YEAR.

| P.A. WELLINGTON, Feb. 23. I The limit prices |for main crop i potatoes are set out in a price order I just gazetted. Growers’, distributors’, I wholesalers’ and retailers’ prices for ' the period March 1 to November 30, 1944, are all covered by the price order. Limit, retail prices are the I same as last year. j For March to July, inclusive, the limits are: Canterbury and Otago ! provincial districts, lid per lb. "Ihe 1 metropolitan areas of Auckland and 1 Wellington and the towns of New Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Gisborne, Pieton, Blenheim, Nelson, i Greymouth, Westport and Hokitika, I2d per lb.; • elsewhere 2Ad For | August to November, inclusive, limit | prices are increased by a farthing a pound. Growers’ prices announced for trie period from March to June, inclusive, are to be followed bv periodic ! adjustments on the same lines as last : year. The main difference from last , year’s procedure is that ’instead of I setting individual prices for each of the months March to June, inclusive < this year’s price order averages the l prices for the four months, and this one growers’ price applies, until the enn of June. The differential price 1 to North Island growers, this year, is 35s a ton higher' than the South I Island price, instead of £2 higher as I it was last year. The March to June 1 growers’ prices (he., actual prices for 1 fair average quality and maximum . prices in undergrade) are: Potatoes grown in the South Island 18 5 s a ton f.0.b., sacks in, for Sutton’s Supi rcme and King Edward, and £7 15s a ton for other varieties. Potatoes I grown in the North Island (other I than tagged potatoes), £lO a ton, for sacks in, growers’ station; tag--1 ged potatoes, not less than £lO a ton and not more than £lO 10s a ton. lhe margins to distributors, wholesalers and retailers remain unchanged.