WELLINGTON NOTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 2

WELLINGTON NOTES.

POTATOES LOWER IN PRICE, .HOARDERS PALL IN. ay TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. New potatoes have been selling hero at 4d, sd, and 6d per lb.; they are down to lis per cwt. wholesale to-day. There has been a rush of new potatoes into this market owing to frost in some parts of the Wellington district. Pine samples have been received too from the Auckland district, but prices are also depressed by the sudden arrival of some hundreds of bags of high quality old potatoes from the South Island. These were already packed up for export to Sydney, but for some reason requiring explanation they have not reached beyond Wellington. They are for sale at the best price that! can be obtained. The only information that could be gained about this sudden inundation of old potatoes is that they had been held in the South Island for higher prices if not locally, then for the export trade, but that now they must be disposed of at some pounds per ton below the ruling Sonth Island rates. In plainer English 1 they would appear to have been hoarded and they pave been held just too long.