POTATOES AND ONIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 287, 5 December 1945, Page 4

POTATOES AND ONIONS

PRICE ORDERS GAZETTED

Changes in growers' prices and in retail prices far new potatoes are notified in a price order just gazetted. The price order covers the months or December, January and February. For the North Island and the Nelson district the only changes arethat the growers’ pr.ee for the first half of December is 116 a ton instead ol £l4. North Island retail prices are unCt For the rest of the South Island the December prices are the same .as formerly. Thereafter growers prices (with retail prices in brackets) are. January 1 to 15, £3O a ton (5d per lb.); January 16 to 31, £25 a f i2 n „ ( ?rh per lb.); February 1 to 14. £2O a to* *.4d per lb.); February 15 to 28, £lb a ton (3d per lb). ONION TRICES. A comprehensive price order covering growers’ and retailers’ prices for onions has also been gazetted. Preyious price orders for onions have defined the monthly price up to November, 1945. The new order continues the’ prices up to December, 1946. Except for the months of December and January, when there are reductions in the prices, the retail prices of lair average quality onions are the same as before. Last year no growers prices were specified for December, the only control being retail prices. This year growers' prices for December are specified in the order. There is a slight change in the growers’ price for January, but the remaining monthly prices are the same. The price order defines the price of old season onions (those planted before April, 1945) sold during December, 1945). The maximum retail prices for onions during December, 1945, find January and February, 1946, are as follow, the price for ungraded being given in parentheses:—December 1. to 15, 1945 (inclusive). 5d (s<l>; December 16 to 31 (inclusive), 41d (41d); January, 1946, 31$ (3id); Feb-

ruary, 1946, 3d (2id.) Pickier grade onions are 3id per lb. throughout. The maximum prices per ton which, which can be charged by growers for delivery during December, 1945 and January and February, 1946, are as follow, the price tor ungraded being given in parentheses:—December 1 to 15 (inclusive), £2B (£28); December 16 to 31 (inclusive), £25 (£25); January, 1946, £l5 (£15); February, 1946, £l4 (£10).

Pickier grade onions are £l5 per ton throughout.