CHEAPER POTATOES
PRICE DROPS SUDDENLY IN SYDNEY POSITION OF TASMANIAN GROWERS. FLOODING OF MARKET DENIED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 13. The wholesale price of the best potatoes was reduced by £6 10s a ton in Sydney today to £l6. A representative of the Tasmanian Potato Board in Sydney today denied the statement that Tasmanian growers had flooded the market with the object of choking out New Zealand growers. He said that the chief cause of the heavy shipment had been the heavy rains, which had forced growers to dig their crops so as to avoid losing them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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98CHEAPER POTATOES Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1939, Page 7
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