POTATOES HARD TO SELL.
. Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington, report values of fruit and vegetables sold on Thursday. Southern potatoes very hard to sell now, but quality good. Sales: Auckland strawberries, Is 6d to 2s 6d chip; gooseberries, Bid to 9%d per lb; local lemons, 10s to 20s per case; Stunner apples, l"ls fid to 14s case; Californian Jonathan apples, ISs to 20s case; Delicious apples,, 14s 6d to 15s Cd case; Fiji bananas, 25s to 27s 6d per case; Fiji pines, lls case. Vegetables: Southern potatoes, £7 10s per ton; Californian onions, 17s per bag; new potatoes, 2%d to 3d per lb; new green peas, 4%d to 6d per lb; cabbage, 3s 8d to 10s 2d case; lettuce, 3s 6d to 7s 6d case; spinach, 2s to 5s case; "cauliflower, 4s 6d to 10s case; iiwedes, 7s case; beetroot, 3s Id to 4s 6d case; cauliflower, 17s to 19s sack; carrots, 4s 6d to 9s Gd case; cabbage, 12s sack; cucumbers, 3s^lld to 5s 6d dozen; leeks, lid per bunch; 'spring onions, 7d to Is 7d bunch; rhubarb, 7s to 9s 6d dozen: new carrots, ll%d per bunch.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 12
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188POTATOES HARD TO SELL. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1929, Page 12
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