AT THE MARTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 8

AT THE MARTS.

. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. PRICES AT WELLINGTON. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted as follows:— Apples: Dessert, 5/ to 14/ a bushel; cooking. 6/ to 8/. Pears: W.8.C.. 5/ to 6'6 a half-case. , Raspberries, 10/ to 12 6 a tin; grapes, hothouse. \f to 1/7 a Ih: plums, dpflsert, 2'6 to 9/ a half-case; cooking. 1/6 to 3'6; Blue Diamond. 4/ to 6/8; peache*,, deaeert, 3/ to 7/ a half-case; cooking. 2/6 to 4/;" nectarines. 0/6 to 8/6 a half-case; greengages, 8/ to 12/6 a hirtf-eaae; black currants, 11/ to 13/ a half-case; apricot*. 3/ to 6/ a half-case. Tomatoes: Nelson, coloured, 6/ to 8/ a half-case; ripe, 8/ to 10/ a half-case; local,, 4d to 7d per lb; beans, 9/ to 27/6 a case; cucumbers, hothouse, 3/ to 5/ a dozen; outside, 3/ to 4/6 a half-case. Lemons. 6/ to 11/9 a bushel. Peas, 9/ to 21/ a sack; potatoes, 7/ to 10/ a sack; onions, local, 9/ to 9/6 a sugar bag: swedes. 3/ to 6/ a case; marrows, 2' to 7/ a case. Lettuce, 2/ to 6'6 a case: cabbage. 2/6 to 6/ a ease: cauliflowers. 7/ to 12'6 a case: pumpkins. 8' to 12/ a sack; silver beet. 1/6. to 3/6 a case: carrots. 6' to 11/3 a case: parsnips. 10' to 13/6 a casebeetroot. 2/ to 3 9 a case; rhubarb, 4/ a dozen bunches. Eggs: Special. 1/9 a dozen; A grade, 1/6: B grade, 1/4.