PRICE ADJUSTMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 24289, 2 September 1942, Page 4

PRICE ADJUSTMENTS

VEGETABLES AND FISH (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 2. The Price Tribunal announced to-day that adjustments have been made in Iho prices fixed last month for pumpkins, kumoras, and spring carrots. The price of pumpkins has been advanced from 4d to 5d lb retail, kumeras from 5Jd to 6d lb, while the prices for spring carrots are 4jUl North Island and 4d elsewhere. The price of the main crops of carrots is unaltered. A retail price of 6d a lb has been fixed by the Price Tribunal for Now Zealand-grown onions harvested on or before November 1 this year. This action has been taken to facilitate the orderly marketing and distribution of the available supplies, and the price fixed will operate throughout the Dominion. The order fixes the maximum prices chargeable by growers as follows: South Island,' £3l; North Island, £32 10s (both sacks in, on trucks at the grower’s country station!. Provision is also made in the order for the maximum prices chargeable bv distributors and also for the margins of profits leviable by wholesalers in remect to sales to retailers.’ Owing to the reduction of fishing activities through war causes, the Price Tribunal has fixed the selling price of lowerpriced fish in Auckland to encourage fishermen to market such fish. The prices affect gurnard, which is 9d lb whole and ICd 'filletled or smoked. Trcvalli is 5d and 10d smoked. Fillets are 9d smoked or unboned.