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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 125, 11 March 1950, Page 7

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FRUIT AND PRODUCE

ASHBURTON MARKET Current prices for fruit and pi’oduce in Ashburton are:— Lemons—New Zealand (fancy), lid lb. Cabbages—Bd to Is each. Lettuces—6d to Bd. Rhubarb —lOd a bunch. Potatoes —New 4d lb. Garlic—2s lb. Carrots —4d lb. Silver Beet—sd lb. Onions—Table 4d lb, pickling 4d lb. New, Gd lb. Marrows —9d, Is 3d each. Beans—6d lb. Beetroot—6d bunch. Grape Fruit—N.Z. Is 2d lb, Jamaican lid lb.; Apples—Gtd; new season’s, 6ld, 7Jd, 83d, lb. Tomatoes —lOd to is 3d lb. Peaches—S.S. dessert, Is Gd lb; stewing, 2s lb. Plums —Is 3d lb. Pears—Bon Cliretian, 9d lb. Nectarines—Dessert, 2s lb; stewing, Is 6d lb. Quinces —9d lb. FISH, PRICES Prices of fish (all per lb. and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) are: Ling Is. Id. (Is. Bd.), gurnet Is. 4d. (Is. Bd.), terakihi Is. sd. (Is. 10d.),blue cod Is. 4d. (Is. 6d.), red cod Is. Id. (Is. 4d.),flounder Is. 3d. (2s. Gd.), sole Is.3d. (2s. 6d.), ling Is. 10d., barracouta Is. 5d.. lb, crayfish Is. lb, groper Is. Bd. 2s. 2d.), whitebait 7s. lb, salmon 3s. lb, oysters 9d. dozen in shell, Is. Id. dozen own containers, Is. 3d. dozen carton, Is. 6d. dozen cooked. STOCKS AND SHARES The following transactions were recorded on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday:— Sales on ’Change—Stock, 1963-65, 3 per cent., £99 7s Gd; Dalgety and Co., 10s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 47s Gd; Macduffs, 9s; Woolworths (Syd.), 25s 7d. Sales reported: Auckland Gas, 9s lOd; N.Z. Insurance, £5 7s Gd; Dalgety and Co., 10s; Booth Macdonald (pref.), 14s 3d; Woolwortljs (Syd.), 25s 7d (2); G. J. Coles, 24s Gd.