EXPORT OF POTATOES
CASE OF PREVIOUS CONTRACTS, Last ivcek the' Prime Minister ivas asked by Mr. L. M. Isitt, M.P., why after Iris promise to the country to stop the export,of potatoes permission had been'given for 100 tons to leave for Sydney,oil Monday ' last by the s.s. Mnraroa. _ , ._ j'
•In replying, • Mr. Massey said that what had been done was that tho Government by proclamation took control of. the export trade in order to see that sufficient potatoes were- left in New Zealand for our own .requirements until the new season's crop-was available; also, to see, that anything in tho way . of "cornering", for the purpose of raising prices -was made impossible. At the same time,' potatoes which had been sold under' contract to merchants and others in Australia were allowed to be exported in the same way as the Australian Government allowed ' wheat and flour -contracted for under similar conditions to be exported to New Zealand,after the Commonwealth proclamation : of last year. ■ - - , '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 6
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163EXPORT OF POTATOES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 6
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