POTATO BLIGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 170, 11 August 1909, Page 2

POTATO BLIGHT.

THE NEW SOUTH WALES RESTRIC 'DONS. By Cable.—Press Association.'—Copyright Melbourne, August 10. Under the Victoria Act three weeks' notice must lie givci before Tasmanian potatoes can be prohibited. The necessary notice is to bo issued immediately. llobart, August 10. It is stated that £15,000 worth o( potatoes are held up by the action of New South Wales. Perth, August 10. Famine prices nre predicted for potatoes, as To per cent, are imported from Tasmania.

ANOTHER ADVANCE. Received August 10, 9 p.m. Sydney, August 10. Tile price of potatoes lias advanced another ten shillings. Importeis contend that tlie proposed prohibition is too late, so far as preventing the spivad of Hi,, disease is concerned. Already hundreds of tons of Tasmanian potatoes liuve been planted in this State. Thc| planting season for tlieiu is now practically over.

j NJCW ZKALAXJ) EXPERT KXCAGKD. Uy Tclcgronh.—Press Assoeintion. Wellington, Last Sight. Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, leaves for Tuftumnia to-morrow to give expert, advice to the Government of thai State eonomimg the outbreak of potato lilight there. NOT FELT IN NEW ZEAltfrfl Auckland, Lust Night. This prevalence of blight in the potato crops iu_. Xiismaiiia is not likely, according to tlic result of inquiries made to-day, to ailed the price of the iiidisIpeiisible tuber so far as New Zealand is concerned. During tji« three previous seasons a large quantity of Tiisinnninn potatoes hiis. found its way to Auckland, lint, during the present season only some 2000 sacks have been imported from that State. The southern crop has been a heavy one thin year, and lias enabled the northern market to be kept well supplied, anil one of tlie principal dealers slates that the southern supplies will be quite sullicient to meet the requirements of northern consumers until the new season's crop is available.