NO CHANGE IN PRODUCE SQUABBLE

Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 8

NO CHANGE IN PRODUCE SQUABBLE

-Press Association

By Telearayh-

WELLINGTON, May 22. Retail vegetable shops in Wellington will be plentifully supplied with produce at the we.elcend, according to the secretary of the Wellington Provincial Fruit Retailers' Association, Mr. L. B. I). Ohau Wai. "The public can be assured that vegetables of all sorts will be on oft'er, " he said. "We got three railway wagonloads today and seyeral thousand paekages will arrivc tomorrow. There, was 110 change to report in the position between tlie retailers and growers over the container eliarge, he added. The growers on their side c-ontirmed the pcrfection of their organisation for street selling -todav, .always .au o-tLdhy in the Wellingjlon marke'tSi.. There \was littie offering in gveen vegetables. , The street d.epots disposed of their snpplics by early afternoon. Tomprrow, Jiormal: ly the markets' biggest day of the week, supplies will .be much bigger. There will be no shortage for tlie depots for the two remaiuing days' trading before the weekeud. It was alleged by Mr. E. T. Bartoseh, a meinber of the executive of the Dominion Council of ('ommercial Gardeners, that he had asccrtained at the source of sujjply in Palmerston North from which the retailers w.ere obtaining supplies, that the container eliarge was being paid to get th.em. When this was re'ferred to Mr. Ohau Wai for comment, lie said the retailers ha.d no intention of revealing the source of their sujiplies but he woulds defiuitely- dcoy anv container charge had b.een paid in getting them.