PRICE OF POTATOES
FIXED BY SOUTH ISLAND GROWERS. MR PSKW IMOCTATieW. CHRISTCHURCH. March I*. The executive of the central council of the South Island Potato Growers Association has authorised as the minimum price for April sales during next week at 115 s ner ton, f.0.b., s-i- This, it is considered, will give growers tha reasonable price of 105 s per ton.on trucks, and should provide the consuming public in the north with potatoes during April at approximately 140 s per ton. The central council considers that owing to the drought and poorness of the crop the price authorised is the lowest possible to provide growers with a fair return.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 8
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