Good weather for good salads

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33442, 25 January 1974, Page 25

Good weather for good salads

Salad foods were in plentiful supply and of exceptional quality owing- to the recent moist weather, said the president of the Canterbury Retail Fruiterers Association (Mr K. A. Fuller).

He said the housewife] should purchase her vege-l tables now because they; were at an all time low price I for this time of the year. The supply of tomatoes; was exceeding the demandl and there were plentiful j supplies of cucumbers, let-' tuces, celery, carrots and; corn. Cabbages, cauliflowers, pumpkins and marrows were also in heavy supply. Stone fruit from Blenheim, south and Hawke’s Bay was readily available, including plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. Grapefruit were very; [scarce and at an exception-' ally high price. Muship. 'mandarines from Napier and ;Rock Melons were both in [good supply. ! Early season apples — 'Gravensteins, Albany Beauty and Gratia—were now in the shops and meeting the ready

!demand. However there were I still no bananas, but a shipjment was expected at the lend of the month. I Strawberries and mush- | rooms were also both in good ! supply.