Some stone fruit cheaper

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32838, 11 February 1972, Page 10

Some stone fruit cheaper

Plentiful supplies of peaches, apricots, nectarines, and plums are still selling cheaply at the Christchurch produce markets.

Plums and apricots are slightly cheaper than they were last week, and plums are retailing at 15c to 25c per lb and apricots at 15c to 29c per lb. Quality is excellent. Peaches are bringing 15c to 24c per lb in the shops and

between $1 and $1.20 a case wholesale.

Some salad vegetables have become cheaper, the top price for lettuce having dropped 5c from last week’s price. They are bringing 15c to 19c in the shops.

The final distribution of Ecuadorian bananas was made yesterday. More supplies of Californian oranges are expected next week. Other retail prices are:— Greengages, to 25c per lb; grapes, $1 to $1.20 per lb, strawberries, 29c to 45c a punnet; lemons, to 32c per lb; Duchess pears, to 16c per lb; William Bon Chretien pears, 15c to 16c per lb; tomatoes, 22c to 28c per lb; capsicums, 40c to 60c per lb; com, 6c to 11c a cob; beans, 15c to 19c per lb; celery, 18c to 29c per head; carrots, 12c to 17c a buftch; parsnips, 14c to 18c per lb; turnips, to 17c a bunch; cucumbers, 14c to 24c each; potatoes, 6c to 8c per lb.