SURPLUS OF N.Z. POTATOES.
N.S.W CROP MAY BE A
FAILURE
Received Wednesday, 9.00 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 16. A cable message is published hero containing information from Auckland to day that there is a glut of potatoes which are on offer at £8 to f 8 10a per ton in the Dominion while consumers here are paying upwards of sixpence per pound retail.
The message has aroused . unusual interest. The embargo against New Zealand potatoes which has been in existence since February J9i' l enables Tasmanian and Victorian growers to reap exceptionally high prices in Sydwhere consumers are naturally anxious that the embargo should ins lifted if only temporarily. The Agricultural Department in Sydney states that the matter is entirely one for the Commonwealth and adds that if the New South Wales potato crop should be a complete failure owing to the absence of rain, which seems highly likely, the prices of local potatoes will go still higher.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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