FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 94, 15 January 1936, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices Brices of fruit, vegetables, aud otherproduce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by Townsend and Paul, Ltd., D. Bowie aud Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., Laery and Co., Ltd., , Thompson Bros., Ltd., and George Thomas and Co., Ltd., as follow:— Apples: Choice dessert, 2/- to 2/6 half-case; cookers, 2/- half-case. Peaches: Choice dessert, 3/6 to 5/6 half-case; cookers, 2/9 to 3/6 half-case; cherries, choice, 12/- to 13/- 101 b. box; plums, choice dessert, 3/6 to 5/- halfcase ; cookers, 2/6 to 3/6 half-case; nectarines, choice, 7/- to 9/- half-case; apricots. choice, 3/6 to 6/- half-case. Black currants, choice, 7/6 to 8/6 halfcase; raspberries, choice, 6/6 to 7/6 bucket; loganberries, choice. 5/6 to 6/bucket. Tomatoes, choice, Hutt hothouse, 12/- to 14/- half-case; Nelson, 12/- to 14/-half-case. Grapes, choice hothouse, 1/9 to 1/10 pound. Cucumbers, choice, 2/- to 4/- halt-ease; french beans, choice, IJd. to 3Jd. pound. New potatoes, choice, 6/6 to 7/- cwt.; green peas, choice, 5/- to 10/- bag. Lemons, choice cured, 9/- to 14/bushel; others, 4/- to 6/- bushel. Cauliflowers, choice, 5/- to 7/6 banana case; cabbage, choice, 1/- to 2/- banana case; lettuce, choice, 2/- to 4/- banana case: others, 6d. to 1/6 banana ease; marrows, choice, 1/6 to 2/-banana caffe; spinch, choice, 6d. to 4/6 banana case; parsnips, choice, 3/r to 8/- dozen bunches; carrots, choice, 2/- to 4/- dozen bunches; beetroot, choice, 2/- to 3/- dozen bunches ; rhubarb, choice, 17- to 2/- dozen bunches. Onions, choice, 3/- to 3/6 sugar-bag. Eggs, fresh, hens’. 1/2 dozen ; medium, 1/1 dozen. Walnuts, choice, sd. to 6id. pound.

Nelson Apple Crop Heavier

A total of 902,591 cases of apples and pears, against 525,426 cases in the previous season, will be exported from the Nelson district this season, according to a provisional estimate made by orchardists. The first overseas shipment of the season, of 12,000 cases, will leave New Zealand by the Wriiwera on February 11. The Waiwera will load at. Auckland, Wellington and Lyttelton, and it is anticipated that the allotment will comprise Alfriston, Worcester, Pearmain, and Gravenstein varieties.

Dividends Payable

Woolworths Ltd. (Sydney) — quarterly, ord., 2 p.c Jan. 15 Sulphide Corpn.—pref., 2/- a share; ordinary, 4Jd. a share Jan. 15 G. J. Coles—pref., half-yearly * 8 p.c., p.a., ord., quarterly, 10 p.c., p.a Jan. 15 Union Bank of Aust. —final 2/6 a share Jan. 30 J. O. Williamson, Ltd.—halfyearly, pref., nt 6 p.c. per annum Jan. 21 "Truth” and “Sportsman,” Syd-ney-quarterly, Ist pref, at 9 p.c. per annum; 2nd pref, at 8 p.c. per annum (both less 22} p.c.) Jan. 23 East African Coffee Plantations, Ltd,—half-yearly, pref, at 7 p.c. per annum .. Jan. 24 Smith and Smith—half-year, pref. 21 p.c Jan. 31 British Tobacco—quarterly, pref, at (>} p.c. per annum.. Jan. 31 Katu Tin Dredging—6d. per share Jan. 31 National Tobacco —pref., 8 p.c., ord.. 15 p.c Jan. 31 Commercial Bank of Ain't., int.. pref.. 4 p.c., p.a.; orffi, 5 p.c., p.a Feb. 7 Kuala Lumpur Tin—l/- a share Feb. 28 Broken Hill South—Jubilee bonne, 2/6 a share Mar. —