EXPORT OF POTATOES.
PERMITTED UNTIL JUNE 30. Mr David Jones has received the following telegram from the Hon W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture; “Re potatoes, the Government has decided that permits for export for shipment up to June 30 will be granted by -Minister of Customs.” The Board of Trade advises as follows : —" You will receive official information from tbe Minister that export of potatoes is being allowed for limited period.” Mr Jones states that this permits a period of grace for the clearance of some of the crop, which union investigators had proved to he a pood one. The Government had nppnronilv taken a. precautionary step. Doubtless, t.iongh, when tin* Sin to exports u’avo in their reports the union’s statement of the position would he borne out. Idle reading of the messages at the banners’ Union Conference this morning was greeted with applause.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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