FRUIT & PRODUCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 264, 20 August 1949, Page 7

FRUIT & PRODUCE

COMMERCIAL

Ashburton Market Current prices for fruit and produce in Ashburton are: Lemons —New Zealand (fancy) lid lb; Meyer Is 3d lb. Cauliflowers —Is 3d to 2s 3d each. Cabbages—ls to Is Gd each; spring, Is 6d to Is 9d. Lettuces —Is each. Rhubarb —Is Gd a bunch; spring, 2s 3d. Potatoes —Old, 2d lb. Garlic—2s lb Celery—ls 3d to Is 9d a bunch. Beetroot—Gd a bunch. Spinach—Gd a bunch. Carrots—4d lb. Parsnips—ld lb. Silver Beet—sd lb. Onions —Table 4d lb, pickling 4d lb. Pumpkins—Gd lb. Grape Fruit—Jamaican, lOd lb. Pears—lid lb. Apples—Gd, 7d, Sd lb. Grapes—Ss Gd to 9s Gd a lb. » FISH PRICES , Prices of fish (all per lb. and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) are: Ling Is. Id. (Is. Sd.), gurnet Is. 4d. (Is. Sd.), terakihi Is. sd. (Is. 10d.);blue cod Is. 4d. (Is. Gd.), red cod Is. Id. (Is. 4d.),flounder Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.),sole Is.3d. (2s. 6d.), silver trumpeter Is. (Is 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, barracoota Is. sd. 11), crayfish Is. lb, groper Is. Sd. (2s. 2d.). STOCKS AND SHARES I The following transactions were recorded on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday: Sales on ’Change—Matea Forests, 2s Gd (2), -Ss 7d (3); Macduffs, 11s. Sales reported: South Canterbury Electric Power Board, 3J per cent., 1/10/60, £lOl ss; Broken Hill Proprietary, 42s Gd; Woolworths, 21s 9d; Woolworths (N.Z.), 23s 9d (2).