FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 103, 25 January 1939, Page 14

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices

Prices ot ITnil. vegetable- and oilier produce in the Wellington mni'ket- this week are quoted bv I.nerv and Co. Ltd., Thompson Bros.. Lid.. 1) Bowie and Co., Ltd.. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., nnd Geo. Thomas am] Co.. Ltd., as follows:— Apples: Dessert. 5/- to 1-1/- a bushel; cooking, (i/- to S/-. Pears. W.B (’. 5/- Io (>/(> n J-cnse

Raspberries. 10/- to 12/0 a tin: grapes, hothouse, 1/- to 1/7 a lb.; plums, dessert, 2/0 to !) / - n -J-cnse; cooking, 1/0 to 3/0; Blue Diamond. 4/- to 0/0. Peaches, dessert, 3/- to 7n J-case: cooking. 2/0 to -(/-. Neel urines. (1/0 to 8/0 a ,1-case, greengages Bto 12/0 a J-cnse: bl.'K'k currants. 11/- to 13/- ,) J-case; apricots. 3/- to 0/- n l-ease.

Tomatoes: Nelson, coloured. O’- to S/a J-ctise; ripe, 8/- to )()/- a J-ense; local, ■id. to 7d. a lb. Bemis. It/- tu 27/0 a case ; cucumbers, hothouse, ?,!- to 5/- a dozen; outside, 3/- to 1/0 n '.-case. Lemons, 0/- to 11/!) n bushel.

Peas, 9/- t<> 21/- a sack; potatoes, 7/to 10/- a sack; onions. local, 9/- to 9/6 a sugar-bag; swedes, 3/- Io 6/- a case; marrows, 2/- to 7/- a case. Lettuce, 2/- to 6/6 a ease ; cabbage, 2/6 to 6/- a case; cauliflowers, 7/- to 12/6 a ease: pumpkins. 8/- to 12/- a sack; silver beet, 1/6 to 3/6 a case; carrote, 6/- to 11/3 a case; parsnips. 10/to 13/6 a case; beetroot, 2/- to 3/9 a case ; rhubarb, 4/- a dozen bunches. Eggs: Special. 1/9 a dozen; A grade, 1/6; B grade, 1/4.