LOOKING INTO IT.
Potato crops in the south are reported to be excellent this year. Buyers are offering £3 10s per ton, but growers will not as yet accept. In spite of the good crop and the low price offered to producers housewives still pay Is for 81b or even for 61b—a rate equivalent to IJd to 2d per lb. If the price is Ijd per lb. it means that it costs £lO to marker and distribute a ton of potatoes. for which the grower receives about £4. It is understood that the Prime Minister is asking the Board of Trade to look into the position.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 2 June 1920, Page 4
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106LOOKING INTO IT. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 2 June 1920, Page 4
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