EMBARGO ON POTATOES
AUSTRALIAN AGITATION FO~t REMOVAL GROWING STRONGER E7EF.Y DAY SYDNEY, Feb. 21. The agitation for the removal of the embargo on New Zealand potatoes grows stronger every day. Advice was received from Canberra that certain Ministers are likely to raise the matter at the Fede-ai Cabinet meeting in Sydney shortly, but while they are not anxious to embarrass the Pr'me Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, those Tasmanian constituency supplies the bulk of the mainland potato requirements, they feel they can no longer withstand the pressure of Government supporters who are clamouring for relief from the famine prices which consumers in Eastern States are comnelled to pay for Tasmanian potatoes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 7
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111EMBARGO ON POTATOES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 7
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