VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 239, 9 October 1942, Page 2

VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

Public concern over the vegetable supply situation encourages a suggestion that may appeal sufficiently to the consumer to warrant the personal effort it will involve. Briefly it is this: The organisation in each suburb, locality, or even street of an "open market," to which those gardeners who are able to grow more vegetables would bring their surplus produce for sale at an absolute minimum. Most gardeners have an over-supply of something, and given a worthwhile avenue of disposal, could increase that surplus. The purchasers would Be the housewives in that particular locality who, at the moment, are paying famine prices for vegetables—when they can get them. Preference could be given to soldiers' wives, pensioners, and others of the severely handicapped consumers. "Such a scheme calls for no more than co-operation between neighbours, staged on whatever vacant section or private garden may be available, and held as frequently as circumstances permit. Such a scheme, born out of just such a situation as prevails here to-day, has in Buenos Aires grown to such proportions that these open markets are a permanent feature of city life, and cover most marketable commodities. It is up to John Citizen, and particularly Jane Citizen, to take their own steps. VICTORY VEG.