Vegetables In Good Supply

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 12

Vegetables In Good Supply

Fruit and vegetables were in fair demand at Christchurch produce markets yesterday, and the quality and quantity of the supply was good. Oranges and bananas will arrive in Christchurch soon. The Haparangi is due at Lyttelton on March 20 with a small quantity of Jamaican oranges, and the Tarawera is expected to arrive on March 24 with bananas. The Christchurch Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association supplied the following price list:— Marrows, 12s to 20s a case. Mushrooms 3s to 5s 6d per lb. Silver beet, 4s to 7s a case. Beetroot, 8s to 10s a case. Peas, 15s to 25s a sugar bag. Cabbages. 6s to 10s a sack. Carrots, 10s to 20s a case. Cauliflowers, 10s to 15s a case. Onions. 10s to 15s a sugarbag (2s 3d a 71b bag). Swedes, to 15s a sugarbag. Potatoes, to 10s a case, 10s to 12s a sugarbag. Spring onions, 5s to 8s 6d a doz. bunches. Radishes, 5s to 7s a doz. bunches. Parsley, 4d to 9d a bunch. Lettuces, 3s to 8s a case. Beans, 6d to Is 9d a lb. Spinach, 5s to 8s a doz. bundles. Cucumbers. 20s to 30s a case. Green peppers, 15s to 20s a case. Sweet corn, to 4s a doz. Pumpkins, red, to 4d a lb; butternut, 20s to 40s a case; buttercup, 12s 6d to 25s a case. Tomatoes. 6d to Is 6d a ib. Peaches. 10s to 16s a case, 7s to 11s a tray. Plums. 12s to 27s a case. Apricots, 20s to 31s 6d a case. Pears, Bon Chretien, 23s to 26s a case. Nectarines. 16s to 28s a case. Grapes, 2s 6d to 4s 6d a Ib. Grapefruit (Jamaican), to 72s 6d a case. Strawberries. 2s to 2s 3d a punnet.