THE POTATO MARKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 10

THE POTATO MARKET.

QUESTION OF SUPPLIES. IN THE SOUTH. AUCKLAND MERCHANTS' VIEWS ■•'->: The s statement regarding ; the s ' potat market, , which appeared in : a press asso ciation . telegram , from Ghmtchurch, pub - lished on - Saturday,, is described as onl; partially ; correct by Auckland 1 merchant ,to whom the matter vas referred. "Ther is ■ certainly a shortage, and it is ad mitted that the? 1 ? has been some short selling,*' : said a ; merchant, '* but lit i , not■.' so acute as the Southern people ar trying to make , out. 7 Several merchant there have large holdings bdught at fairl; high prices. Consequently they ' desir that the prices shall go still higher, an< it apparently is' for this reason that the; are anxious to make. It appear, that sup plies are scarcer than they really are. 1 It♦ was added that the.present stocks ii Auckland amounted to about . 70QO sacks which was equal to about ten days' con sumption. The Wingatui, '• the next stea mer to bring potatoes from the South -was carrying only about 2000 sacks, bu larger quantities would be brought by tvr< steamers that were to follow.- It • wit stated that no ; more Tasmanian potatoe are to be imported. The price of thes' has advanced, and it was said that th quality of the consignment brought b; the Kaltangata was '.'equal to antici pations. . ;