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POTATOES DEARER. • (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) PUKEKOHE, This Day. There has been a rise in the price of potatoes during the last few clays, and merchants now quote £7/15/- to £B/5/- per ton. The demand is very heavy and supplies good. The first sample of the second crop arc now coming to hand. There is a fairly good demand for local onions, and supplies are heavy at from £5/5/- to £6 per ton. Quality is very good. Cabbages are selling at 5/- per sack, there still being a very heavy demand from Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki. Carrots are quoted at 4/6 per sugar-bag; parsnips, 4/6; French beans , 5/6 per sugar-bag (30 lbs.); rhubarb, 2/9 per dozen bundles; marrows, 3/3 per dozen; pumpkins, 6/per cwt; tomatoes, 3/- per case.
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Northern Advocate, 6 February 1934, Page 8
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