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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 5s to 9s a dozen, others 2s to 4s; cabbages, best quality 2s to 3s a dozen, others Is to 2s; spring onions, 6d to Is 2d a dozen; beetroot, Is to Is 8d a dozen; white turnips, 6d to Is a dozen; carrots, Is to Is 7d a dozen; spinach, Is to Is 9d a dozen; radishes, 6d to Is a dozen; lettuces, best quality Is 6d to 2s 4d a dozen, others 4d to Is; rhubarb, 2s to 4s a dozen, according to quality; potatoes, Is to Is 3d a sugar-bag; onions, Brown Spanish, lid to ljd per lb; Canadian onions, 15s to 16s per 1001b bag; new potatoes, best quality Jersey Bennes 21d to 3d per lb, other varieties 2d to 2ld, inferior lines Id to lid per lb; asparagus, 4s to 6s a dozen bundles; green peas, good supplies available, yesterday's values being from Is 4d to Is 9d a peck, according to quality; cucumbers, 8d to 9d per lb. Fruit—Apples: Plentiful supplies are coming forward ex cool store, and luling values are as follows: —Delicious, extra choice 7s to 8s a case, inferior 4s to 6s 6d; Sturmers, extra choice 6s 6d to 7s 6d a case, inferior 4s to ss; Lord Wolseleys, 6s a case. Tomatoes: Plentiful supplies available. Yesterday's values were: Good quality lines Is Id to Is 3d a lb, inferior 8d to Is. Strawberries: Increased quantities coming forward, extra choice realising Is Id to Is 2Jd a punnet, inferior 8d to Is. Cherries: Local supples are now more plentiful, and yesterday's values were lower than in the early part of the week, good quality lines realising Is 2d to Is 4td per lb. others lid to Is Id. Gooseberries: 2Jd to 3Jd per lb, according to quality. New Zealand lemons: 12s to 16s a case, according to quality. New Zealand passions: 13s a box. Imported Fruit —Californian grapes 27s to 27s 6d a case; South Australian oranges, 17s to 24s a ense, according to counts; pineapples, 23s to 26s a case, according to counts. DUNEDIN (PHES3 ASSOrIATIUW TKI.EOBAU.) DUNEDIN, November 16. Supplies of apples have eased off, and any lines of choice quality are readily placed. A few lots are still arriving from Nelson and Canterbury, but fruit from the latter province is not opening up too well. Pears are about finished. A small consignment of Tongan bananas arrived during the week and met with a fair demand. The quality was not up to that of the bananas from other islands. A small shipment of Fiji bananas is expected next week. Only small sized oranges are now available in the marts. Supplies of tomatoes are erratic, with heavier supplies arriving towards the end of the week. A line of Island tomatoes arrived by the Waimarino to-day. New Zealand and Californian grown lemons are very scarce in the wholesale marts. There are no grapes in the wholesale marts at the moment. A small lot of cherries reached Dunedin during the week from Canterbury. Small lots of strawberries are coming forward, mostly from Central Otago. SMALL INVESTORS NATIONAL SAVING CLUBS (iaoi£ oira own co*BE3iT)Nr>r:NT.) LONDON, October 9. The amount of money owned by small investors in thrift organisations in Great Britain is £2,543,000,000. Lord Mottistone, chairman of the National Savings Committee, estimated the total in an address to the West Midland Regional Savings Conference at Stoke-on-Trent. He also announced that next month a scheme for National Savings Clubs, to place share-out clubs on a sound basis, would be launched. The total of £2,543,000,000 represented a sum of more than £56 a head of the men, women, and children of this country, or—as statisticians had estimated —not less than £240 a household. The new National Savings Stamp scheme made available less than three weeks ago, had proved so attractive to the general body of national savers that, even in that short period, more than 7000 associations had accepted the scheme. The object of the formation of National Savings Clubs to be launched next month was to place the management of what were termed "share-out clubs" upon a sound basis. , , . "The general standard of honesty in this country," he said, "is such that the actual defalcations in share : out clubs have been small in comparison with the huge number of transactions, but nevertheless they have been real and substantial, and the sadness caused to households when the savings of a whole year are dissipated through fraud or mismanagement is a grievous thing, and ought to be slopped." SALE REPORT Messrs Railway Auction Yards report (lint following the usual quiet holiday poriod the last week has shown a decided improvement, and a firmer enquiry for nil lines of general furniture and merchandise. Principal prices realised included: —Chesterfield suite. £lO 10s, do. £l2 10s, dining-room suite £ll 10s, bedroom suite £l4 10s, oak duchcsso £l, l'imu sideboard £3 15s, wardrobe .£3 twin wood beds £3 10s, gatelog table Jt'j' 17a Gd, rimu duchesse £2 6s, single wood bed £1 10s Cd, doublo mattres3 £1 15s, duchesse £2, double wood bed £'2, tabic £1 ss, aingle wood bed £1 8s Gd, 3ft mattress £1 7s Gd, 4 chairs £1 4s, duchesse £1 15b, tleak £1 12s Od, 4 kitchen chairs £1 10s, 3ft mattress £1 23 Gd, duchesso £l, linoleum £G -'s 3d, doublo mattress £1 12s Gd, hearth -ug £1 ss, double mattress £1 15s, baby duchesse £1 19s Gd, folding bed £1 15s, pedestal ICS Cd, hearth rug 15s, table lis, 2ft On mattress 15s, chair 7s 6d, kerb 7a Gd, runner os, pillows £1 73 3d, baby's high chair 12s Gd, 3ft mattress 14s, stool 7s Gd, singlo bed £1 15s, singlo mattress 17s Gd, kitchen table 15s, chair lis Gd, mattress 17s Gd, stretcher £1 Is Gd, mattress £1 23 Gd, single wood bed £1 15s, chair Gs Gd, hearth rug 10s, cot 12s 6d, single mattress £1 ss, pushchair £1 15s, suit case 18s 6d, set scales £6, mantelpiece £1 17s Gd, gent's bicycle £1 15s, casb register £1 10s, timber £l7 3s 2d, portable copper £1 ss, piping £3 4s 3d, paint £2, tricycle 108, pump Ss 6d, bird cage 6s Gd, wire netting Is, ladder 153, pulley and block 15s, pair stops ss, primus lamp 7s, lawnmower 10s, blow lamp ss, kitchen utensils £2 4s 2d, bird cage ss, ladder 7b Gd, tools £4 5s 9d, wheat 12s 6d, to 14s Gd, straw Is bale, hay Is 6d to 2s Gd, pigmenl 7s, oat pollard 4s, pollard 12b 6d, rico bran 3a, potatoes 4s Gd bag, seed potatoes 3s largo sack, rock salt 7s cwt. —G

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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 13

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FRUIT MARKET Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 13

FRUIT MARKET Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21324, 17 November 1934, Page 13