FRUIT AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 3

FRUIT AND PRODUCE.

SLIGHTLY BETTER TONE IN MARKET. There was a slightly hotter tune in the fruit market this neck, especially for first quality lines. At to-day's auctions poor grade apples and pears were cheap. Prices were as follows:—Apples, Delicious, A grade, 8/ to 10/, with wrapped and graded a fraction higher: other dessert lines, 3/ to 6/, according to quality. Cookers, 5/ to 6/; extra good. 0/ to 6/6. Grapes were slightly lower in price this week. First quality made from 1/6 to 2/3, poorer 1/ to 1/0, Australian (white) IS/ to 20/. Pines brought from 12/ to 18/. according to quality, and oranges, re-packed, 1(1/ to 14/. Bananas, repacked, 15/ to 20/, and inferior 5/ to 10/. Guavas, which are scarce, sold at from 5/ to 7/ a full case. Mandarins, repacked, realised 10/ to 14/; lemons, j graded lines, 15/ to 20/, others 6/ to 10/. j A shipment of bananas from tlie Cook ' 'Islands is expected by the Flora, which lis due to-morrow. j The potato market was keen and! i buyers paid as much as 11/10 per cwt. lat auction to-day. It is considered by j merchants that the high price is only I temporary. Swedes made from 2/ to 2/3 I a bag; onions. 7/ to 10/ cwt.: pumpkins, i 4/ to 8/6 a bag and up to 8/ti cwt. for special lines; kumaras l,d to lid lb; cauliflowers, in sacks, 2/ to 8/6, according 1 to quality, extra good quality, 9/ to 17/; celery. 1/6 to 2/9 per bundle. Poultry: Cockerels, heavy, 4/fi to 6/, light 3/ to 4/6; hens, heavy. 2/8 to 47, light 2/ to 2/6; ducks, 3/ to' 4/6. Hen eggs made from 2/11 to 3/2; duck, I 2/3 to 2/0, and preserved 1/2. Farmers' I butter brought from 1/3 to I/O per lb.