LOWER PRICES FOR SOME FRUIT LINES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 9

LOWER PRICES FOR SOME FRUIT LINES.

BETTER SUPPLY OF FISH AND MORE VARIETY.

To-day’s quotations in the retail fruit trade reveal that bananas and oranges are selling cheaply. Bananas are .tfen, sixteen and twenty for Is. Sweet Island oranges are four, five, six and eight for Is. Other prices are:—Apples, Delicious 6d a lb, COx’s Orange 4d and 6d a lb, cooking apples 31b for Is, pears 6d a lb, passion fruit eight for Is, quinces 4d a lb, pie melon 51b for Is, grapes 2s 6d and 35,. a lb, strawberries 2s a box. Cabbages 3d and 4d, cauliflowers 4d. marrows Gd to Is; 'punlpkin.s 2d a lb, pickling cabbage 6d, 8d and 9d each, "best celery fid a stick, spinach 3d a bunch, parsnips 3d a bunch, carrots, turnips and beet 2d a bunch, artichokes 4d a lb, peas od a lb. tomatoes 3d and 4d a lb, glasshouse 6d a lb. FISH AND, MEAT. “ Supplies of fish are much better,” it was reported to-day, “ and the variety is good.” Groper is lOd and Is a lb, ling Sd, kingfish Is, terakihi Sd, butterfish Is 6d each, whiting three and four for Is, soles and flounders Is a lb. Oysters are coming in regularly, and craj'fish are fairly plentiful. There are the usual supplies of smoked fish. This is the period of the year in which meat prices are fairly stead\*. Good ox beef is commanding £2 a 1001 b in the market, which is a much better figure than last year. On the other hand mutton is cheaper, and is more tempting to the buyer. GROCERIES. Though some apprehension was felt early last week concerning stocks of sugar, the end of the shipping hold-up altered circumstances and it is considered that there will be no shortage. In some cases stocks are light. The market for eggs is firm, first grade selling at 2s lid wholesale, and second grade at 2s Bd. In other lines little fluctuation in prices has occurred.