FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 9, 11 January 1929, Page 10

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Market Gardeners, Ltd:, report values of fruit and vegetables,sold yesterday. Fruit'- was in very good demand. Fruit report: California]] organes, 32s case; Hutt tomatoes, No. 24d lb, No. 1 8y 2 d to lOd per lb; gooseberries, 4s to 5s 6d case; plums, 4s to 7s 6d case; peaches, 3s 6d to 7s case; Otago apricots, Cs to 9s 6d case; cooking apples, 9s to \3s case; eating apples, 11s to 15s case; loganberries, 8d per chip; Auckland strawberries, 9d to Is 4d chip; black currants (wet), 5s Gd. Vegetable report: Hutt tomatoes, 6s to 13s 6d bag; Pukekohe potatoes, 4s bag; onions, 17s per cwt; lettuce, 3s 3d to 13s case; cabbage, 3s 6d to 7s per case; cauliflower, 7s case; swedes, 4s case; beans, 5s to 9s per box; beans, 16s to 19s per bag; marrows, 6s 9d to 8s 9d per case; carrots, 5s 9d case; green peas, 13s. 6d to 19s per sack; spinach, 2s 9d to 3s case; cabbage, 14s sack; rhubarb, 4s dozen; cucumbers, 4s peivdoz.; beetroot, 3%d to 4d per bunch'; spring oniony, ■ Is 3d to Is 9d per bunch; swedes, 7d • per bunch.