Good supply of celery

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33252, 15 June 1973, Page 11

Good supply of celery

Celery and cabbage were the most reasonably priced vegetables at produce markets this week. Celery is plentiful for this time of the season, retailing from 23c, to 32c a bunch. Cabbages, depending on size, will cost to 23c each. Brussels sprouts came into the markets in good quantities this week and will retail about 18c per lb. Ecuadorean bananas are • retailing at 18c per lb (19c in , the country), and a wide variety ' of apples is selling between 12c and 18c per lb. A shipment of Australian ■ navel oranges is due in Christchurch on June 25. Other retail prices, calculated on wholesale prices at the market this week, are: spring cabbage. 18c to 25c each; red cabbage, 24c to 34c each; silver i beet, 15c a iiead; cauliflower. 19c to 33c each; carrots. 6c to 8c per lb: parsnips. 9c to 11c per lb; leeks, 36c to 40c a bunch | Potatoes, 7c to 10c per lb: onions, 12e per lb; tomatoes. 37c/ to 65c per lb; hothouse 'ettuce, 46c each, outdoor. 18c to 23c each; Fijian mandarins 29c per , lb: North Island mandarins. 59c .per lb; grapefruit. 23c per lb; passionfruit. 5c to 7c each; : tamarillos, 18c per b. Electric*, not oil The vent shown in the photograph on page 15 in i yesterday’s issue was part : of an electric underfloor heater, not an oil-fired plant. The photograph was part ot ■ I the heating supplement, ji