SALE OF VEGETABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 118, 23 May 1946, Page 5

SALE OF VEGETABLES

WELLINGTON RETAILERS OBTAIN SUPPLIES EFFORT TO STOCK SHOPS FOR WEEK END BUYING (P.A.) Wellington, May 22. Retail vegetable shops in Wellington will be plentifully supplied with produce at the week-end, according to the secretary of the Wellington Provincial Fruit Retailers’ Association, Mr. L. S. D. Chanwai. “The public can be assured that vegetables of all sorts will be on offer,” he said. “We got three wagonloads to-day and several thousand packages will arrive to-morrow.” There is no change to report in the position between the retailers and lhe growers over the container charge, he added. The growers, on their side, continued the perfection of their organi-

sation for street selling. To-day, always an off day in Wellington markets, there was little offering in green vegetables, and street depots disposed of their supplies b# early afternoon. To-morrow, normally the market’s biggest day of the week, supplies will be much bigger. There will be no shortage for depots for the two remaining days’ trading before the week-end.

It was alleged by Mr. E. T. Bartosch, a member of the executive ofthe Dominion Council of Commercial Gardeners, that he had ascertained at a source of supply in Palmerston North from which the retailers were obtaining supplies, that the container charge was being paid to get them. When this was referred to Mr. Chanwai for comment, he said the retailers had no intention of revealing the source of their supolies, but he would definitely deny that any container charge had been paid in getting them.