Vegetable And Fruit Prices

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32354, 21 July 1970, Page 16

Vegetable And Fruit Prices

Busar bag« of potatoes Vttf again cheaper at the Christchurch produce markets yesterday. They fetched Up to S 5 cents, 15 cents less than on Thursday. Pumpkins cost *0 cents less, fetching Up to *1.50 * sack. Carrots, selling at up to $1.20 a case cost 10 cents less.

Cauliflowers, however, were 30 cents dearer, costing up to $l.lO a case. While Sugar bags of onions selling at up to S 4. cost *0 cents more. Sliver beet. Increased by up to 20 cents, and sold from 80 cent* to $1 a case.

While Chinese gooseberries sold for 40 cents more, costing up to $3.40 a case, tamarillos were 30 cents cheaper, and sold at up to U. 50 a case. Fruit, including a stock of North Auckland tomatoes, sold weU and was In plentiful supply. The official price range .supplied By the Christchurch Fruit and vegetable Whoiasalera' Association Was-.

Silver beet: 80c to *1 a case. Beetroot: 50c to SOc a case. Carrots: SOc to $l.lO a case. Cauliflowers: Me to $l.lO a Case. onions: to $4 a sugar bag. Parsnips: Me to $1 a Case. Sprouts: To $3.50 a ease. SwedeO: SOc to $1 a bag. White turnips: Me a case. Potatoes: TO SSC * sugar bag. KumeraS: To $5 a case. Spring onions: To SI a dozen bunches. Parsley: To 22e a bunch. Lettuces: 80c to *1.35 a ease. Leeks: To $1 a case, Utah celery: To $2.9$ a case. Rhubarb: TO $2 a dbsen bunches. Buttercup pumpkine: To Me a case. Tomatoes: 23c to 51c per lb. Grapes: $1.30 per lb. Grapefruit: To $5 a case. Passionfrutt: $2.50 a case. Tamarillos: $1.50 to $3.50 a Case. Chinese gooseberries: $1.60 to $3.40 a case.