94c FOR A LETTUCE
Effect of strike in Hawaii Honolulu housewives are paying 94c for a small head of a lettuce and 27c for a tomato because a two-month waterfront strike has stopped imports of canned goods and they have been advised to buy fresh vegetables. When the emergency food committee set up by the Governor of Hawaii (Mr J. A. Bums) suggested that island housewives buy fresh produce instead of canned goods, the food editor and consumer writer of the Honolulu “StarBulletin” went shopping. They then added their own suggestion for housewives in search of fresh fruit and vegetables: take plenty of money. They found a cauliflower cost 72c (N,Z.), a grapefruit 36c, a lettuce 94c, a tomato 27c, a small cucumber 29c, seven small bananas 49c, and a sweet potato 21c. In Christchurch yesterday, the cauliflower would have cost 30c, the grapefruit 6c, the lettuce 15c, the tomato 10c, the cucumber 40c, the bananas 45c and the sweet potato (kumera) 21c. It is now early autumn in Hawaii. Wages there are about twice those in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32706, 8 September 1971, Page 12
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17994c FOR A LETTUCE Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32706, 8 September 1971, Page 12
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