POTATO BAGS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10778, 29 May 1911, Page 1

POTATO BAGS.

To the Editor. Si,- —1 notice in %lie Witness report of the Wvndham lirahch of the ftew Zealand Farmers' Union that they have •mprnvod of a remit" protesting against potato-'fowers 'haying to allow "bags in" to "the merchants.., I tliink every -r o wer should come out and/take a farm stand with regard to'this matter, and demand that a fair price be returned for the bags. With sacks at 6s 6s per dozen and with the prosWect of next venr 'i believe," being called to pav .something like 7s 6d per dozen, I think it is high: time we bestirred ourselves in sweeping away an absurdity which lias' lasted all too long. -One thin",is certaiji:: Some one gets the benefit of .the empty sacks, therefore we as should receive some recognition hv way r of a refund. Trusting some abler pen., will take this matter iin in a determined manner.—l,am, etc., p '•POTATO CHOPPER.',