POTATOES FOR EXPORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10718, 12 September 1912, Page 4

POTATOES FOR EXPORT.

In the midst of much rejoicing over the high price for potatoes for export to the- Commonwealth, says the Dnnedin Star, there has come a chilling word from "the other side." It is an instruction from the Ke\v South Wales [Government to the effect that the importation of seed or small potatoes from New Zealand must stop. - Unless the' Dominion authorities can persuade the New South Wales officials to remove the restriction as regards forward contracts, "tfneresult will he serious to New Zealand merchants. Local potato exporters held a meeting the other afternoon, when it was de cided to wire- Mr T. W. Kirk, New Zealand Government Biologist, requesting him to ask the Sydney authorities to allow shippers to complete present contracts to the end of this month. It is thought that this request will he considered favourably in Sydney. Different opinions are expressed as to the reasons that prompted! the restrictions against seed oismall potatoes', but the ono 'tnat seems

to hold the most weight 19 that whirl) lays the blamo on a Sydney produce nrm, who arc suspected of having mixed seed with table potatoes, and selling the "mixture" for £IG a ten, tints netting a dear profit of over £8 a ton for tho woo tubers.