Potatoes for London.

Manawatu Herald, 12 February 1898, Page 2

Potatoes for London.

♦ ■ '... Tha Melbourne Age quotes, in a recent issue, some of the statistics of the Channel Islands trade in potatoes with London. These show that between April 19fch and July 18r.h, last year Jtnsry sent 53,000 tons of potatoes to London, and j received for them a lit'lo more that] I £400,000, the avtrag pi ice per ton ranging from £14 14s duting the first ton d iy< of the season, down to \ £4 14? fjr the last lea days. Our ' contemporary goes on to pay:— •• A ' trade that yields £402.000 during a period tf about three months, | with an avcnigs price that goes up | as high as £24 14* per ton, would ' | peom tn justifj' having a cut in at it. j Tho choica month to strike the London market, it will be seen, in April, and that potatoes can be '; grown in Victoria to catch this desip. able tradu is shown by the fact that, a'though tha great bulk of the | Victorian potatoa supply does not coma in before the end of May or the beginning of June, yet 40,000 tons of early potatoes had been dog within this colony before the close of last February, and solxl at an average of £2 per ton. As compared with fruit and like perishable produots, potatoes properly selected and cas.e packed with ordinary care could db shipped -at cargo rates, and the February crop could be in time for, the April market, with the tempting margin &g to prices."