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VEGETABLES AND FRUIT

According to the weekly report of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, large consignments of potatoes have come forward from the Hutt, Blenheim, and tho north, and reports from the south indicate that the main crop will be a heavy one. Choice Hutt are selling from £5 to £5 10s, and others at £4 to £4 10s per ton. All root vegetables are selling at usual summer rates; green peas are eagerly bought up at full 1 Tate^, and cabbages and caululowers meet with ready sale, but prices have been low for onions owing to the inferior quality brought forward. , Peaches from Moiueka and Hawkes Bay are realising good prices at 3s 6d to 5s per ca«e ; apples, which are arriving freely, are selling from 6s to 7s per case; dessert pears fetch 3s 6d to 4s per case ; quinces, 4e to 6s per case ; grapes, 9d to lOd per lb ; and blackberries, 2fd per lb.

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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 8

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VEGETABLES AND FRUIT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 8

VEGETABLES AND FRUIT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 8