GREEN VEGETABLES
PLENTY IN WANGANUI EFFECT OF RAINFALL. The continued rainfall experienced in Wanganui lately has resulted in auction marls being well supplied with green vegetables. Prices nave slumped badly for lettuces, cauliflowers and cabbages. Lettuces are being sold for as little as Is a case of four dozen, while large ones, with hearts the size ol small cabbages, are realising 6d and Is a dozen. Cauliflowers, which, a month ago, were selling at 2s a head, are now fetching Is a head, and the small ones 6d a half dozen. Spring cabbages are also considerably cheaper than they were at this time last year. Prices for new potatoes continue to drop as increasing supplies come to hand from Pukekohe. In the past two weeks they have dropped from 4d to 3d a lb. in city shops. Not many locally-grown new potatoes have yet been received, but there is expected to be plenty in another week. New season’s carrots will also be on sale shortly. The last consignment of Australian oranges this season will arrive in Wanganui next week, following which Jamaican fruit will be imported.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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186GREEN VEGETABLES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 287, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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