FRUIT MARKET.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 12

FRUIT MARKET.

CHRISTCHURCH. The market was fairly well supplied -with vegetables this woek. The demand was good and most varieties realised high prices.- Fruit was also in good supply, but generally prices were satisfactory. Tomatoes are still selling at a good price owing to the fact that the outdoor-grown are coming in slowly. There is iiot a great deal'. o£ stone fruit coming to hand, consequently it is selling well. The stone fruit crops generally seem to be light this year. Plums are scarce, and all lines are bringing good prices. This week greengages made up to 9sd a lb wholesale. A small consignment of new season's dessert pears from Hawke's Bay reached Ohristchurch during the week. They sold at up to 10s 6d a small box; New season's dessert applesare still scarce, and are selling at _ good figures. A shipment of Fiji bananas is due to arrive in Ohristchurch to-day, and another lot is expected on Monday. They should make good prices, as the market is bare at present. Lemons are still selling very slowly, whilst the oranges on hand are on. the sour side and are not selling well. It is expected that • the new shipmont of oranges will bo sweeter. A shipment of Italian oranges and r lemon's.is expectod'to arrive in Christcliurch on February 9th. Quotations are aB follows: —Apples, Irish Peach, local, per case, up to OJd; apples, cooking, per case, 5s to 7s 9d; apricots, dessert, per lb,'up to 6d; aprioots, cooking, per lb, up to 4|d; bananas, l?iji, per case, 30s; .grapes, firsts, per lb up to 2s 8d; lemons, Italian, per case, up to 255; oranges, Italian, per case 355; pears, dessert, per lb 6d; peaches, cooking per lb 3d to 4d; peaches, dessert, per lb up to 6d; plums, cooking, per lb 3d to 4d; ' greengages, per« lb up to Old; raspberries, local, per lb up to Is 9d; tomatoes, small, I por lb,'4d to 6d; tomatoes, dessert, per lb, up to 9Jd; walnuts, per lb 6d to 8d; beans, ! French, up to 6id per lb; beans, broadj up i to 2d per lb; beet, per dozen bundles, up to Is 6d; cabbages, per dozen, up to 21s 6d; carrots, per dozen, up to 2s 2d; green peas, per peck, up to 2s 9d; lettuce,'per dozen 3d to 2s; marrows, per dozen up to Gs 1 6d; newpotatoes, per sugar bag 5s to fis; parsnips, per dozen Is 6d to 2s; rhubarb, per dozen Is to 3s; spring onions, per dozen Is to 2s; turnips, per dozen Is to 2s.