Potato Ban Attacked
ACUTE POSITION IN NEW SOUTH WALES United Press Assoclatlon.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 19. According to the Sunday Sun the New South Wales Cabinet is drafting legislation for the creation of a price iixing tribunal which will control the excessive prices of commodities and be based upon the Auditor-General's report of his inquiry into the price fixing machinery in New Zealand. The article then takes up the case for the removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes, declaring: "If this is not done Tasmanian potatoes are likely to go to £4O a ton during the winter." It is added that Sydney and Melbourne merchants have arranged for considerable purchases of New Zealand potatoes subject to the suspension of the ban on New Zealand potatoes.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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