FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 165, 29 April 1950, Page 7

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

COMMERCIAL

ASHBURTON MARKET Current prices for fruit and produce in Ashburton are: Lemons —New Zealand (fancy), lid lb. Cabbages—ls to Is 6d each. Lettuces—6d to Bd. Rhubarb —lOd a bunch. Potatoes —3d lb. Garlic—2s lb. Carrots —4d lb. Parsnips—sd lb. Silver Beet—sd lb. (Unions —Table 4d lb, pickling 4d lb. New, 6d lb. Marrows—9d, Is 3d each. Beetroot—6d bunch. Grape Fruit —N.Z. Is 2d lb, Jamaican lid lb. Apples—New season’s, sd, 6d, 81d lb. Tomatoes —Is 3d to 2s lb. Pears —9d lb. Quinces —Is lb. FISH PRICES Prices of fish (all per lb. and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) are: Ling Is 2d (Is 8d), gurnet Is (id (Is lOd), terikihi Is 8d (2s), blue cod Is 4d (Is 6d), red cod Is 2d (Is 6d), flounder Is 4d (2s 8d), sole Is 4d (2s 8d), smoked ling Is lOd, barracouta Is 5d lb, crayfish Is lb, groper Is 8d (2s 2d), \yhitebait 7s lb, oysters 9d dozen in shell, Is Id dozen own containers, Is 3d dozen carton, Is 6d dozen cooked. STOCKS ANO SHARES The following transactions were recorded on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday:— Sales on ’Change—G. J. Coles, 19s 9d (2). Sales reported: Stock, 1960-G3, 3 per cent., £99 7s 6d; A.CJ. (rts.), 295; Woolworths (N.Z.), 265.