Good Supply Of Vegetables

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 18

Good Supply Of Vegetables

There was a good supply of salad and cooking vegetables at Christchurch produce markets yesterday. The offering, which was of good and varied quality, met with a fair demand.

Wet Weather at the weekend caused a drop in the supply of fruit from Central Otago and Nelson. However, it is expected that the supply will be back to normal soon.

The offical price list supplied by the Christchurch Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association is:—

Cabbages, to 9s a sack; cauliflowers, to 14s a case; onions, to 20s a sugar bag, sprouts, to 38s a case; swedes, to 12s fid a sugar bag; potatoes, 8s to 14s a sugar bag; kumeras, to 40s a case; spring onions, to 7s W a doz.; radishes, to 4s a doz.; parsley, to 4d a bunch; lettuces, best 6s to 9s a doz. Leeks, to 15s fid a case; celery, white, to 16s a doz., Utah, to 18s a doz.; french beans to 6s a box; butter beans, to 8s a box; stringless beans, to 32s a case; runner beans, to 16s a box; spinach, to us a case; cucumbers, to 20s a case; sweet corn, to 6s 6d a tray; rhubarb, to 10s a case; butternut pumpkins, to 15s a case.

Tomatoes, 9d to Is 9d per lb.; peaches, to 17s 6d a case, to 9s a tray; grapes, 4s to 4s fid per lb; Chinese gooseberries, 16s to 18s a case.