CITY MARKETS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1944, Page 3

CITY MARKETS

FRUIT AND PRODUCE STRAAVBERRY SUPPLIES LOWER Supplies of strawberries were diminishing at £* PS increase in the supply of hothouse grapes. Flowers were in very short supply. The demand was keen ana prices were high for all good quality There was no change in the price of eggs. Vegetables.—Beet. 7/ to 12/ per case. Carrots, 26/ per cwt. Cabbages, 1/ to 7/6 per sack. Cucumbers, 1/ to 3/ per doz. Stringless Beans, 4/ to 17/ per case. Green Peas. 5/ to 20' per bag. Lettuce, 3/ to 15/ per case. Marrows, 1/ to 4/ per doz. Onions, 11/ to 16' per cwt. Potatoes, new 14/9 per cwt. Pumpkins, new season's 14/ to 28/ per cwt. Parsnips. 8/ to 12/ per bag! Radish. 3/ to 9/ per case. Rhubarb, 3/ to 6/ per case. Spinach. 6/ to 11/ per doz. Spring Onions. 1/ to 7/ per bundle. Swedes, 4/ to 5/3 per bag. Turnips, 2/ to 3/ per case. Fruit.—Tomatoes: Hothouse, 2d to lid per lb: outdoor, smooth and crinkled, 2d to 10d. Grapefruit, New Zealand. 27'6 per case. Peaches: Dosscrt, 12/ to 21 G per three-tray cm t c , dessert, 6/ to 10/ per case. Plums: Dessert, 5/ to 10/ per case: cooking, 4/ to s': Sultan, 5/ to 10/. Grapes: Hothouse. Black Hamburg, 3,2 to 4/6 per ib. Apricots, Otago, 14/6 per case. Strawberries: Captain Cook, extra choice, 3/ to 4/6 per chip: others. 1/9 to 2-6. Loganberries. 3/4 per chip. Black Currants. 18 6 to 23/ per case. Poultry.—At to-day's auctions the supply ol poultry was heavy and the demand was fair. The prices paid dropped slightly all ">" nd - ™± young drakes practically unsaleable• Seltafr rates were as folJow:-Cockerels: Heavy breeds, prime 6/ to 10/ each, not prime. 3/6; to 4/e. LW>t ww «-i« m-fnie i/ in s/S not prime, &f to j/. mmwmm 13/ to 28/ each.