FRUIT & PRODUCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 7

FRUIT & PRODUCE

COMMERCIAL

I PRICES ON ASHBURTON MARKET Current prices for fruit and produce in Ashburton are:— Lemons—New Zealand (fancy) lid. lb; Meyer Is 2d lb. Cauliflowers—From Is to 2s each. Spring Cabbages—3ld lb. Lettuces—6d to 9d. Rhubarb—9d to Is 3d a bunch. Potatoes—Old 2d lb; new, 4d lb. Garlic—2s lb. Asparagus—ls 6d to 2s bunch. Hothouse Tomatoes—2s 3d to 2s Gd lb. Spring Beetroot—fid to Sd a bunch. Cucumbers—ls 3d to 2s each. Beans—Gd lb. Spinach—lOd a bunch. Carrots—Gd to 8d a bunch. Parsnips—4Jd lb. Turnips—Gd bunch. Silver Beet—Gd lb. Leeks—Gd to 9d bundle. Pumpkins—7d lb. Onions—Table Gd lb, pickling 3£d lb. Peas— 1 7d to Sd lb. Apricots—>9d to Is lb. Peaches—ls to Is 3d lb. Apples—6Jd to Sd lb, 9s Gd to 17s Gd case, depending on grade and size. Marmalade Oranges—ls 3d lb. Gooseberries—ls lb. Grapes—9s Gd lb. • Cherries—2s to 4s lb.

Strawberries—3s Gd to 4s a punnet

/ Walnuts—2s 2d lb. Wheat—23s to 25s sack, 8s a bushel. Oats—ss 6d bushel. Chaff—Ss to 10s a bag (according to weight). FISH PRICES Prices of fish (all per lb: and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) remain the same, although the whitebait season has finished: Groper Is. Bd. (2s. 2d.), ling Is. Id. (Is. Bd.), gurnet Is. 4d. (Is. 5d.), terakihi Is, sd. (Is. 10d.), blue cod Is. 4d. (Is. Gd.), red cod Is. (Is. 2d.), flounder Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.), sofe Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.), silver trumpeter Is. (Is 3d.), smoked blue cod Is. 6d.,’red cod Is. 6tL, ling Is. IDd. a , LONDON WOOL SALES I The produce department of the Bank of New Zealand lias received the following advice from its London office under date January G relative to the Liverpool wool sales: “The sales have opened with large attendance of buyers. Home trade very active; compared with the close of lait sales at London, New Zealand greasy medium crossbred 5 to 10 per cent, dearer, fine crossbred 5 to 7J per cent, dearer, scoured generally- 10 per cent: dearer.” '•■*4 - -