FRUIT MARKET

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21198, 23 June 1934, Page 11

FRUIT MARKET

CHRISTCHURCH The market report for the week is as follows: Vegetables—Plentiful supplies of all classes of vegetables are available, and ruling prices are as follows: — Cauliflowers, best quality 4s to 6s a dozen, others 2s to 4s; cabbages. Is to 2s 6d a dozen, others 6d to Is; lettuces, hothouse best quality 2s to 2s 7d a dozen, outdoor Is to 2s 6d a dozen; marrows, 2s to 5s 6d a dozen, according to quality; celery, best quality 4s to 6s a dozen, small Is to 3s; spinach, Is to 2s 2d a dozen, according to quality; swedes. Southland Is 6d a sugar bag, local 6d to Is; root varieties, 6d to lOd a dozen; pumpkins, Id a lb for best quality, others Jd per lb; Brussel sprouts, 3d to 4d per lb; rhubarb, 8s 6d a dozen (small); red cabbage, 5s a dozen; onions, Is to Is 3d a sugar bag; potatoes, 2s a sugar bag; carrots and parsnips, Is to Is 3d a sugar bag. Fruit—Tomatoes: Only small quantities of hothouse tomatoes are now coming forward, and really first-class lines are selling at 6d per lb, other qualities 3d to 5d per lb. Apples—Quantities coming forward have now eased, and in consequence prices have hardened a little. Ruling values are as follows:—Delicious, best quality 6s a case: Jonathans, best quality 5s a case; Sturmers, 4s to 5s a case; Lord Wolseieys, 3s 6d to 5s a case; other cooking varieties, 3s to 4s 6d a case. Pears—Good quality dessert lines scarce. Winter Cole and Winter Nelis realised 2s 6d a half-case, other varieties Is 6d to 2s a half-case. New_ Zealand lemons in short supply, realising 20s to 23s a case; Poormans, 8s to 10s a case; passions, in short supply, realising 17s a case; tree tomatoes, 7s 3d a case. Imported Fruit—All lines in short supply. Pineapples, 23s 6d a case; oranges, San Francisco, 45s a case; lemons, San Francisco. 49s a case' ripe bananas, 17s to 18s 6d a case. DUNEDIN (IaESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, JUII3 22. Apples are offering in fair quantity. There is a good demand, but only for best quality. The market for dessert pears shows improvement. Oranges are in short supply, and Cali-fornian-grown advanced in price. The oranges by the Monterey were held up temporarily owing to trouble on the waterfront at Auckland. The largest proportion of her shipment has yet to arrive. The shipment is expected early next week. Island oranges are in short supply, with higher prices ruling. A further shipment is due at Auckland at the end of next week. A shipment of Fiji bananas is expected at the same time as the Island oranges reach the local market. Poorman oranges are in better supply and are meeting good demand. A shipment of Sydney pineapples arrived by the Waikouaiti. AUSTRALIAN CANNED FRUIT CHARGES OF DUMPING IN N.Z. DENIED MELBOURNE, June 22. An emphatic denial to the charges made in New Ze; id that Australia is dumping canned fruit into New Zealand was given by Mr W. J. Adams, secretary to the Commonwealth Fruits Control Board. FOR EMPIRE BUYERS NEW ORGANISATION IN LONDON The Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. R. Masters) has advised the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce of the establishment in London of British Industries House, an institution which has been sponsored by private enterprise and backed financially as an investment by some of tlve leading life assurance companies in the United Kingdom. Briefly, the aims and objects of the new institution are to provide an Empire trade buying centre where manufacturers and other producers having no recognised exchange marts will be provided with a continuity of opportunity for displaying their products and for making commercial contacts with buyers all over the W ln d his letter to the chamber, the Minister mentions that British Industries House is reserved exclusively for British goods, whether from the Home country or from the Dominions and Colonies. A special section is set aside for the use of Dominion and Colonial producers, where they may engag'e showrooms or erect show cases and have their own offices. Apart from the purely commercial point of view, the promoters emphasise the national aspect of the undertaking.

PROPERTY SALES Messrs Sheppard and Smith, Ltd., 133 Hereford street, report having sold the property, No. 40 Colenso street, Sumner, at a satisfactory figure on account of the Guardian Trust and Executors' Company, and also having let the shop at No. 162 Armagh street, on account of Messrs McGibbon, Mason, and Company. • Messrs C. E. Jones, Ltd., auctioneers and estate agents, 174 Manchester street, report having sold on account of the trustees, a property in Mowbray street, Waltham, comprising a residence oi five rooms, with all conveniences, and with approximately one-eighth of an acre of land, to a client, at a satisfactory figure. —7 Messrs Ford and Hadfield, Ltd., real estate agents and auctioneers, 131-133 Worcester street, Christchurch, report having sold to Mr Hewitt two fine building sections, containing approximately half an acre, in Edenhill road, Mount Pleasant, on account of the trustees in the estate of Mr H. E. Musgrave. SOURCES OF INCOME. Apart from Investment Income, an Investment Trust of the British type—of which the New Zealand Investment Trust is the only one in the Southern Hemisphere—has many supplementary sources of income made up from trusteeships, guarantee, etc. Therefore, the New Z~aland Investment Trust is able to make profits through avenues which are not available to the private investor. For further details, enquire at the New Zealand Investment Trust Ltd., D.I.C. Buildings, Wellington (P.O. Box 1617). Branches: Christchurch, Dunedin, In ver car gill and Auckland. Chief Brokers: The Securities Corporation (N.Z.) Ltd.. Christchurch.