AT THE MARTS.
WELLINGTON PRICES. Fruit and produce merchants in Wellington report present values of l'ruit and vegetables as follows: — Apples, Gravenstein 2,6 to 3/6 per halfcase, Red Astrachan 2/ to 46; loganberries, 5/6 to 6/6 per tin; raspberries, U; |to 7/6; red currants, 4/6 to 5/6; black I currants. 8/ to 9/6 per half-case; apricots, 18/ to 12 ; plums, dessert 4 to B.', cooking 2/ to 4, ; peaches, dessert 4/ to 8 . cooking j2/ to 4 ; lemons. 7/ to 12 per bushel; ! cherries, 7/ to 12,3 per quarter-case: | tomatoes, hothouse local oMmI to 6V»d per lb, Nelson, ripe 7, to 8 6 per case, coloured 8/ to 10 ; beans, 2 6 to 11,3: cucumbers, outside, 2 6 to 5/ per hall-case : potatoes, 7/ to 7,6 per sack; peas, 5/ to 16,9; cauliflowers. 5/ to 7 9 per case; cabbage, 2 to , 3 11; lettuce, 1 6t07, ; spinach, 4, to 7, ; I swedes, 2/ to 5/; carrots, 3d to 6d per I bunch; parsnips, 3d to scl; beetroot, Id to '.3d: rhubarb, 4 to 7, per dozen bunches: ! walnuts, 6d to 8d per lb; eggs, A grade 1/4 per dozen, medium 1/3.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 4
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192AT THE MARTS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1938, Page 4
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