WHO SAID

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 300, 17 December 1923, Page 9

WHO SAID

"WE HAVE NO BANANAS?" The distribution and sale of fruit and vegetables on a quantity scale to meet the daily or weekly needs, in and out of season, of Auckland's healthy population, demands an efficient organisation and in this respect the city has a reputable supply medium in the active establishment of Messrs. W. Ah Chee and Co., who have always kept well abreast of the times, to stock the household lines. Those model husbands who, under the guise of duty or as a professed hobby—more or less by choice—take a pride in their limited cabbage patehe* will often marvel how it is that the market gardens of Messrs. Ah Chee and Co., on the outskirts of the city, month by month produce their fresh erons of greens—snails, slugs and other pe.s'ts notwithstanding. When one recognises the amount of careful cultivation, the tons of seed and the volum- of consistent transport required to be maintained to ensure that the difTerin" choice of our domestic greens shall be satisfied at a few minutes notice, the uniformity of supply of vegetables available at all times is commendable. "Johnny, go up to the shop and get ir.-; a good cabbage," or it may be cauliflower, potatoes, lettuces, " onions or other edibles, and neither the good mother, with the planned menu in view, nor her youthful messenger, will dream of an Ah Chee shop being unable to supply the vegetables in request. Thousands of households similarly get their daily and week-end vegetables, fruit and other foods. In this, as in other festive seasons, "Messrs. Ah Chee and Co. are ready to fulfil the greatest needs of the populace. Though perishable goods, including our local strawberries, are largely comprised in th-j firm's activities, customers recognise that all goods are dispensed in a fresh and well preserved condition, made possible by the system adopted in relation to the replenishing of the shop stocks. Finally, let it be said, as a matter of news, that Ah Chee and Co. will participate in the sales of the shipments of bananas arriving this month from the! islands. In the 22.000 eases landing, j worked out at the rate of 3>o per case and 2000 cases at 200 per case, the ' Christmas banana feast at our disposal i will approximate a total of over seven j millions. Who will go short?