POTATOES IN SYDNEY
DROP IX PRICES ' *
(United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph— Copy right)
SYDNEY, sth August. The prohibitive price of potatoes has led to diminution in consumption, with the result that the price fell to-day £4 per ton to £lB. Merchants think the housewives' boycott, coupled with the threat to bring in Now Zealand potatoes to Australia, is largely responsible for the drop. Tasmanian "rowers disclaim responsibility for the famine prices and declare that the bad season and floods affected the crops.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 6
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82POTATOES IN SYDNEY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 6
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