WHAT RAILWAYS CAN DO.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 984, 5 October 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHAT RAILWAYS CAN DO.

from Sydney, N.S.W., give a most deplorable account of the potato market. There were but ten days ago * thousands of tons of potatoes in the Sydney market, which would never be sold except for pig or cattle feed. The very best New Zealand potatoes were almost unsaleable, except in small quantities, at thirty shillings per ton, bags included. The circular Head market in Tasmania, from which Sydney receives her main supplies at this season of the year, was in a glutted state. The reason assigned for this unsatisfactory position of the potato market in Sydney is the opening up of the lines of railway in New South Wales to rich land of a high altitude, from which a constant supply of potatoes are sent to the Sydney market. The people in New South Wales will, with the great facilities now afforded in that highly prosperous Colony by railways opening up fine agricultural land of almost an unlimited extent, be enabled to produce sufficient agricultural produce for home requirements. In the course of a very few years we fully expect to see the Colony of New South Wales figure largely as an exporter of wheat.