AT THE MARTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 4

AT THE MARTS.

APPLES IN DEMAND. OUTDOOR TOMATOES CHEAPER.* BANANAS AT HIGH RATES. Good dessert apples were in fair demand to-day, but pears are still iselliug slowly. Very large quantities of outdoor tomatoes are now coming forward, values varying according to grade. Plums and peadies were in fair demand. There are a large quantity of mushrooms arriving on the market and these are very hard to quit. Good quality lemons are in demand and oranges remain as usual. There is rather a slow sale for hothouse grapes. Values for Otago apricots were higher to-day, as they were in short supply. Strawberries will very soon be finished. Ripe bananas are in short supply, but fresh supplies are expected by the Mahia on Monday. Quotations are as follow: — Apples: Albany Beauty, 5/ to 9/ per case; Giavcnstein. extra choice 5/6 to 7 0. others 3/ to 4/; cookers. 3/6 to 4/6. Pears: Bon Chretien, 8/6 to 10/ per case. Tomatoes: Outdoor, ex. choice, firm 2,6 to 3 6 per c;.se. others 1/ up. Oranges: Californian, 37/ to 40/ per case; Jamaican, 27/6 to 82/6; Japanese. 25/ to 28/. Lemons: Choice cured, 10/ to 13/ per case; others. 3/ to 8/. Mandarins: Japanese. 11/ per case. Bananas: "Ripe, 30/ to 35/ per case. Grapes: Hothouse, Hamburg, choice 1/ to 1/4 per lb: others. 6d to lOd. Peaches: Paragon. 4/ to 5/ per case, crates 6/ to 10/. according in condition and size. Plums: Burbank. 3/ to 4,'6 per case; Satsuina, 4/ to 5/6Purple King. 5/ to 8/6: Doris, 5/ to 6/6others. 3/ to 4'6. Nectarines: 2/6 to 4/6 per ease. Apricots: Otago, 8/ to 9'll per case Strawberries: Captain Cook, l'.l to 1/10 per chip. Raspberries: 9/1 per tin. '

' Increased Onion Supply. Onions and potatoes were in increased supply to-day at the City Markets, and prices ruled lower. Peas and beans also came forward in large quantities, meeting a good demand. Trices were higher for lettuce and cucumbers, while for pumpkins, which were very plentiful, values were a little easier. There was a shortage ot carrots, and juices were high. Range of prices: — Beet, 1/ to 1/9 per dozen; celery, cooking 9d to 1/8 per bundle, dessert 2/ to 2/9; carrots, 1/6 to 2/3 per dozen; cauliflowers', 7/ to 9/ per sack; cabbages. 3/ to 7/ per sack, on benches 1/6 to 2/6 per dozen; cucumbers. 9d to 3/ per dozen; French beans, 2/ to 4/ per bag; stringless beans, 4/ to 6/6; green peas, 3/ to 9/; local new season, 2%d to 4d per lb; lettuce, 2/6 to 7/ per case; marrows, 1/ to 3/ per dozen; onions. 3/ to 5/ per bag; potatoes, No. I, 2/9 to 4/; pumpkins, new season, 8/ to 11/6 per cwt; parsnips, 1/ to 1/6 per dozen; radish, 6d to 9d; rhubarb, 1/6 to 3/; spinach, 1/ to 1/9; spring onions, 8d to 1/4 per bundle; swedes, 2/ to 4/ per bag; turnips, 6d to 9d per dozen. Market heavily supplied with onions, potatoes, peas, beans, lettuce, also good supplies pumpkin, carrots, beet, cabbage, kumaras, cauliflower, cucumbers, celery, and all r vegetables in season; demand fair. Poultry. At to-day's auctions the supply of poultry was medium and the demand very fair. The prices paid remained practically unaltered. Selling rates were as follows: Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime 3. 0 to 5/6 each, not prime 1/6 up: light breeds, prime 2/ to 4/, not prime 6d up. Fat roosters. heavy breeds 19 to 2/6. light breeds 1/3 to 1/6: fat hens, heavy breeds 2 0 to 4 , light breeds 1/3 to 1/9; pullets, heavy breeds, best 5/ to ($/, smaller 2/ up: light breeds, best 5/ to 6,'. smaller 2 up; drakes, young, prime 16 to 2'. smaller i)d up; ducks, young 2.6 to 4,6, old Od to l.li; drakes, old, 9d to 1/6; guinea fowls, 3,6 to 4 (i. * Butter and Eggs. Egg prices are Id u dozen higher for A and B grade, as follows: —Hen: A grade 1 lO'/i per dozen, B grade 1/8%, C grade 10%. Duck: A grade I''B% per dozen, B grade 1/7%. C grade 1/vVi. Farmers' butter, B%d to lid per lb. WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington. markets this week are quoted as follows: — Apples, new season's: Gravensteins. 10/6 to 13/ bushel; cookers, 7/ to 9/; Cox's Orange Pippin, 10/ to 14/. Pears: W.8.C., 8/ to 11/ three-qwirter case; L.8.C., 9/ to 11/. Greengages: 8/ to 11/ half-case. Peaches, choice: Dessert, 6/ to 8/ half-case; cookers, 5/ to 6.'. Apricots: Choice. 5/6 to 9/6 half-case; others. 4/ to 5/. Nectarines: 5/6 to 9/ 1 hah'-caso. Plums: Purple Kings. 5/ to I 8/ half-case; Siinta Rosa. 6/ to B,'S: BurI banks. 4' to 7'6: Blue Diamonds, 5/6 to j 7/: Doris. 5/ to 7/. Raspberries: 9,' "to 10/ tin. Cucum- ! bers : Oufsidp. 3 0 to 4' half-case. Lemons: Cured, 12/ to 18/ bushel: others. 6/ to 10/. Green pens: 6/ to 13' sack. Marrows: 1/0 to 2'o banana case. Tomatoes: Local hothouse, iid to 6%rl a lb: Kelson red. 7'' to 0' half-case: cot ouipd. 6/ to 8/ half-case. Hothouse grapes: Od to 13 a 11). French* beans and scarlet runners: 2d to 4d a n>. Potatoes: 5/ to 7/ t'V/t. Pumpkins: 7/ to 12/ a sack. Cjußiflowcrs: 9' to 11/9 a banana case. Lettuce: 6d to 2'6 a banana case. Spinach : 5/ to 9/9 a banana case. Swedes: 2/ to 3/ a banana case. Carrots: 6d to 1/1 a bunch. Parsnips: 2d to 4d. Beetroot: Id to 2d. Cabbage: 1/6 to 3/6 a banana case. Onions: Pukekohe. 4/6 to 5/. Rhubarb: 2/ to 4/ dozen bunches. Eggs: 1/8 to ]/9 a dozen. Walnuts: Choice, 5d to 6d a lb.