FRUIT & PRODUCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 180, 14 May 1949, Page 7

FRUIT & PRODUCE

COMMERCIAL

PRICES ON ASHBURTON MARKET

Current prices for frujt and produce in Ashburton are:

Lemons —New Zealand (fancy) lid lb; Meyer Is 2d lb. Cauliflowers —Is 9d to 2s 6d each. Cabbages—ls to Is Gd each. Lettuces —Gd to 8d each. Rhubarb—9d a bunch. Potatoes—Old, 2d lb; new, 3d lb. Garlic—2s lb. Celery—ls Gd to 2s a bunch. Tomatoes —Hothouse, 2s 3d. Beetroot—6d a bunch. Beans—ls 2d to Is Gd lb. Spinach—lOd a bunch. Carrots—4d lb. Parsnips—4d lb. Silver Beet—sd lb. Onions —Table 3d lb, pickling 31d lb. Pumpkins—sd lb. Marrows —Is to Is Gd each. Peas-—Up to Is Gd lb. Grape Fruit—Jamaican, lOd lb. Pears—9d lb. Apple's —Gd lb. Grapes—ss Gd to Gs Gd lb. Quinces —Gd lb. FISII PRICES • Prices of fish (all per lb. and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) are: —Groper Is. Sd. (2s 2d.), ling Is. Id. (Is. Bd.), gurnet Is. 4d. (Is. 5d.), terakihi Is. Ed. (Is. 10d.), blue cod Is. 4d. (Is. Gd.), red cod Is. (Is. 2d.), flounder Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.), sole Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.). silver trumpeter Is. (1<? 3d.), smoked blue cod Is. Bd., red cod Is. Gd., ling Is 10d., oysters Sd dozen in shell, lOd. a dozen open, Is. a carton, barracouta Is. sd. lb.