EXPORT OF POTATOES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15919, 3 May 1912, Page 9

EXPORT OF POTATOES.

HELD UP IN AUSTRALIA. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, May 2. During the past two or three weeks a fair quantity of potatoes has been shipped to Svdney. the quality of the tubers being certified to by the local acting Government grain grader, homo of these potatoes have reached Sydney, and have been admitted on this officer's certificate, but another lot of some 200 or 300 sacks has held up, and it is alleged that Mr T. \v. Kirk, Government Biologist, has cabled asking the Federal Government not to admit New Zealand potatoes on this officer's certificate in future. Communications between Mr Moss. of Messrs Shiel and Co., and Mr T. W. Kirk have elicited the statement that tho grain grader has no standing in regard to potatoes, and that Mr Kirk could do nothing with reference to the shipment held up in Australia. It is stated that potatoes were admitted to Australia a week previously on the certificate of tho same grader, but that potatoes'shipped to Australia will 'have to be passed in New Zealand by an inspector appointed under the Orchards and Gardens Diseases Act.