PLENTIFUL MUSHROOMS
MABTON YIELD IN AUCKLAND Mushrooms have been exceptionally plentiful this year and good supplic are still obtainable in a number o city and suburban shops (says the New Zealand Herald). The season usually commences ii March and terminates about the middL of May, but it is thought probabh that the current season may continue for a week or two yet. A large pro portion of the mushrooms sent, to tin Auckland City Markets has come iron the Marton and Feilding districts, al though quantities of local grown urn Waikato mushrooms have also been diposed of. this year have bcei very low, and, even though the scasoi is approaching its close, good mush rooms are selling at from Is to Is 6< a lb. At the end of February tin retail price was 3s 6d a lb, but in Apri and early May, when the season wn at its height, prices dropped to 3d ant 4d a lb. This is a decided contras to the 3930 season, when mushroom were a very expensive delicacy owinj to unfavourable early autumn weathei
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 137, 12 June 1931, Page 3
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181PLENTIFUL MUSHROOMS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 137, 12 June 1931, Page 3
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