FURTHER COMPLICATIONS IN OTAGO

Chronicle (Levin), 9 January 1947, Page 4

FURTHER COMPLICATIONS IN OTAGO

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DUNEDIN, Jan. *. The . recent difficulty liouscnvi vehave experienced in securing vegetahle.has now been further couiplicated In the decision of market gardeners not t supply new potatoes to merchants u the eity, but to sell to the public direc from their gardens at 4d a II). Thi: decision, which arose from tlie d'tssatis faction of the groivers with tlie fixet. price of the new season 's crop sol» this rnontli, lias creatcd a viifiia famine. While merchants are naturally dis satisfied with the sitnation which ha developed witliont. warning, they agre. that the growers have a legitiniaK grievance. They are supporting tfn growers' requests for an amendment o. controllcd , prices to make l{ worfl yhile '#qr '^garden,er»."tO fesn^ie stippfy '3hg\'Mafket,5._ A meeting of tlie Dti nedii ht-Pru Produce Auctioneers' Association an« the Egg and Produce Merchants' Asso ciation was held yesterday, and it wa unanimously decided to support tio growers' application for a continuanci of December prices for new potatoe until the end of January, with thi January price order to come into forc in Fcbruary. JMembers said thero was no prospoe of potatoes coming on the market t'o at least two weeks. Growers a Outram had applied to the PricTribunal to carry the Deceniher fixe price of £.35 per ton for first gradpotatoes, and £31 for undergrade, int January to recompense them for tli season being a rnontli late. They were refused this concessioir. and the priee order of £25 for firs grade and £22 for undergrade becain. operative »for January. Tlie grower decided it was not profitable to dig and left the crop growing.