POTATO MARKET
CANTERBURY VALUES FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 7. The potato market continues firm, but little business is .passing. Quotations in the city today ranged from £l2 to £l3 a ton. The Waimarino, which was to leave Lyttelton this evening, but has been delayed by bact weather, is the only ship to take potatoes to the North Island this week. Her total shipment from Timaru and Lyttelton is approximately 6000 sacks. To July 1 this year, total shipments from Lyttelton to the North Island were 150,693 sacks, an increase of 63,344 sacks on the total of 87,349 sacks, shipped to the same date last year. The Timaru figures to June 15 were approximately the same as last year’s at 52,591 sacks. Officers of the Department of Agriculture have been making a survey of potato stocks in the country this week in accordance with the announcement by the Minister of Industries and Commerce last week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 3
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156POTATO MARKET Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 3
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