INQUIRY FOR POTATOES
SOUTH AMERICAN INTEREST POSSIBILITY OF BUSINESS [by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Several inquiries have been received in Christehurch for a shipment of potatoes to the Argentine and Uruguay. No sales have yet been made but as the South American crop is short this year merchants hopo tho negotiations now in progress will end in export orders being booked. ( About 2000 tons of New Zealand potatoes, nearly all from Canterbury, were shipped to the order of the Uruguayan Government in 1933. Tho price received varied then from £5 10s to £7 a ton, f.o.b. Merchants in Wellington and Timaru have also received inquiries. If orders are booked tho export business would have tho effect of steadying the market.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22447, 17 June 1936, Page 14
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121INQUIRY FOR POTATOES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22447, 17 June 1936, Page 14
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