AT THE MARTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 107, 7 May 1943, Page 5

AT THE MARTS

TOMATOES IX DEMAND A good demand existed for choice outdoor tomatoes at the city markets to-day. Hothouse grapes were a little easier; fairly large quantities were offering. Passion fruit and tree tomatoes were keenly sought. Vegetables in season were forward in good supplies, with prices showing little variation from earlier in the week. Cauliflowers were dearer. Carrots sold at lower rates. . .Vegetables.— Beet, 1/ to 2/ per dozen (3/ case); celery, cooking. 1/5 to 2/6 per bundle: dessert, 2/9 to 5/3: carrots, 3/ to 5/ per bag: cauliflowers, 6/6 to 20/ per sack; cabbages, 10/ to 26/6; cucumbers, 6/ to 9/6 per dozen; French Deans, 4/ to 13/6 per bag: stringless beans. 15/6 to 27/6; green peas, 10/ to 33/; kumaras (Tauranga), 4/ to 8/; local, 10/ to 15/; leeks, 1/3 to 1/9 per bundle; lettuce. 4/6 to 17/ per case; marrows, 2/ to 4/ per sack; melons, citrons, 6/ to 10/; onions, 16/ per cwt; potatoes, 10/6; pumpkins, good, Crown, 10/ to 21/; others, 2/ to 12/ per sack; parsnips, 21/ per cwt; Radish, ,6d to 1/6 per dozen; rhubarb, 6/ to 10/6; spinach, 1/6 to 2/6; spring onions, 1/ to 3/ per bundle; swedes, 2/6 to 4/6 per bag: turnips, 12/ per cwt; Brussels sprouts, Slid to per lb. Fruit.—Tomatoes, extra special, 25/ to 35/ case; outdoor, smooth, 16/ to 24/; No. 2 and cracked, 4/ to 10/: tree tomatoes. New Black, 9/ to 16/6; Yellow, 8/ to 13/; grapefruit, New Zealand, 30/ to 31/; grapes, hothouse, Gros Colman, 2/6 to J/9 per lb; special, 4/ to 4/6; cape gooseberries, r/3 to 1/5 per lb; passion fruit, 20/ to 25/ per case; No. 2, 10/ to 14/; persimmons, 4/ to 9/: strawberries, Captain Cook, extra choice, 3/10 to 3/11 per chip; fejois, 5/6 to 9/ per case; guavas, 7/ to 10/6.