Rejected Potatoes

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5964, 27 July 1912, Page 1

Rejected Potatoes

Private a dviee has l>rs'ii reeeiv.od in that; ,» of potatoes which passul ins|>eet ji»n in Bluff was rejected in Sydney, ami a telegram which came to Imtid , x iew liny-; affo shows tlull this not an isol;it-f (I case, a shipment from Ditn'■din having t'ailnl Id «ain the npproval of the inspector at Svdu.n ('sayllie Daily News). It was al-e slated by (the amm for ||i,. ,-spurt. T that the latter consignment was lieiiiv: sold in dribbles for ship's -.lures, the onlv direction in which thev could-lx. disposed of. In cases were potatoes are /rejected in Sydney it dies not |)av 'to I'cship to New Zealand, ;t s the charges total C2 10s, »jd to briny the potatoes back would mid another i.l, or £3 10s n t,on in from which it will ta. st vu that there would -be no profit in the operation.