THE POTATO RESTRICTIONS
CONFERENCE OF STATE PREMIERS. fly Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 18, 10.1S p.m. Sydney, August 13. Two members of 'the Tnsmaiiian Parliament interviewed the Minister for Agriculture to-day with a view to inducing him to withhold the prohibition of tlia Tasmanian potatoes. Subsequently « proclamation nv*s' irsiiert prohibiting the importation of 'lusmiiniiiu and Queensland potatoes.
A conference of the State Ministers fur Agriculture will be held at Melbourne next week, whereat potato disease and the prohibition question will be discussed. A statement is made that potatoes infected with blight have reached Sydney from the western .districts of the Now Hebrides.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 2
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