FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 14

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices

Brices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by Thompson Bros., Ltd., Geo. Thomas anil Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend and I’aul, Ltd., and Laery and Co., Ltd., aa follows: —

Apples, new season’s, cookers, -1/- to 7/- a bushel ease; Cox Orange, 6/- to 11/-; Jonathans, 3/- to 5/6; Delicious, 4/- to 7/-. Passion fruit, 6/6 to 10/6 per half case. Beaches, choice dessert, 6/- to 8/9; cookers, 4/- to 5/-. Pears, Winter Coles, 4/6 to 6/6 per three-quarter case; L.8.J., 9/- to 12/-; cookers, 4/- to 6/-. Quinces, 6/6 to 9/a bushel. Nectarines, 5/- to 8/- per half case. Cucumbers, outside, 12/- to 17/- per case.

Lemons, choice, 14/- to 18/- per bushel; others, 8/- to 10/-. Kumeras, 2/- to 0/- per sugar bag. Green peas, 7/- to 17/6 per sack. Tomatoes, local coloured, 1/6 to 2/3 per case; local ripe, 1/6 to Marrows, 1/3 to 3/- per ease. Cape gooseberries, 4/- to 5/- per half case. Grapes, hothouse, 1/- to 2/1 per pound. Beans, 6/- to 16/3 per case. Pic melons, 5/- to S/- per sack. Potatoes, 4/- to 7/- a cwt. Pumpkins, 5/- to 8/a sack. 'Cauliflowers, 1/6 to 3/6 a sack. Lettuce, 2/- to 6/- per case; . Spinach, 3/- to 7/- per case. Swedes. 2/6 to 4/3 per case. Carrots, 4/- to 6/6 per case. Parsnips, 4/- to 5/6 per case. Beetroot, 1/- to 2/- per case. Celery, 6d. to 2/- per biineh. Leeks, 3d. to 6(1. per bunch. Cabbage, 9(1. to 2/pcr case. Onions. Pukekohe, I/- to 4/6 per sugar bag. Rhubarb, 6/- to !)/- per dozen bum lies Eggs. 1/9 Io 1/16 per dozen. Auckland Grain and Produce Dominion Special. Service Auckland, March 30. Potatoes are cheaper owing to supplies coming in heavily from Pukekohe. Manawatu are selling at £B/15/- per ton. and Pukekohe at 3/6 per sugar bag. Little more maize is available in the Bay of Plenty. The price is unaltered at 7/11 per bushel. Bran is still plentiful and dull of sale at £6. The mill price of pollard is quoted at £7 a ton. Barley stocks are very short, and feed clipped are quoted at 6/1 per bus'hel. and undipped at 5/9. The market for chaff is very ' firm at £9/10/- for southern.

Mount. Lyell Production The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, has issued the following progress report for the fortnight ended March 17: —North Mt. Lyell: Tons extracted. 4792; 1000 ft. level. No. 17 crosscut 69ft. through, mineralised, schist, and completed. Royal Tharsis: 'Pons extracted. SSL West ’.yell: 'l’ons extracted, 20,399. Prince Lyell: Tons extracted, 2710. Lyell Comstock : Tons extracted. 3329. No. 8 level, No. 1 mullock pass rise to 94ft. through ore; north drive to 115 ft. through ore, work then suspended; main crosscut, to 226 ft. through low-grade t.uartzitic ore; No. 9 level, cutting main shaft in progress. Reduction works: Furnace iu blast for full period; 5564 tons refinery anodes made for current year. Concentrator: Mill operated 319 hours and treated 32,721 tons ore, producing 2006 tons concentrates. Copper refinery: Tank house in operation throughout fortnight, 538 tons cathode copper being produced. Total for current year, 6177 tons.