PRICES OF POTATOES
Retailers Reply To Complaints
(P A ) WELLINGTON, August 21. The Wellington Retail Fruiterers’ Association met this morning and decided to continue selling Ohakune main crop potatoes at the maximum profit of one-third of the cost price. The Minister of Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan), it was stated, was not fair' in his statement that the Price Tribunal was aware that main crop potatoes had been sold as new potatoes. They were not forcing potatoes on the public as new potatoes, but were selling them as Ohakune potatoes to fill the want caused by lack of other supplies. It was either those potatoes or none. If they were governed by the price regulations it was contended that auctioneers should not be allowed to sell them by auction. That was the retailers grievance: that auctioneers were allowed to sell them at any price they reaUzed. Retailers were supposed to sell them at a fixed price. It was doubtful, however, if those potatoes were covered by the Price Order 92 and a test would be welcomed.,,
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Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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177PRICES OF POTATOES Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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