SERIOUS POSITION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 3

SERIOUS POSITION

IN POTATO INDUSTRY

breaches of price orders

•fa T, , WELLIN GTON, this day. The Price Tribunal stated to-day had been made £ t u G Potato Advisory Committee, which showed that a very serious position has arisen in the potato industry by reason of widespread breaches of the provisions of price orders Nos. 92 and 94, which fix the prices to the grower and the margins permitted to other parties concerned. ihn the position of the potato trade at the present time it was essential that the terms of the price orders in question should be strictly obeyed by everyone concerned. Prosecutions are being instituted against retailers who have sold potatoes to the conpermitter/ h P v iC th S higher than those permitted by the price orders and brine to n hnnt° Ur ma de to in k per f ons further back u . chain, namely, growers distrib?iakinf,hrrchan^' Dreaking the provisions of the order. The Tribunal emphasised that it S„Sf e i?" ,0 see the prS J 8 f price or ders governing as those*™ obse . rved as strictly ties anrl «? vermn « other commodities, ana if cases are discovered where serious breaches have been ffi W. . the Tribunal will press for the maximum penalties.