LONDON FRUIT PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 101, 2 May 1933, Page 10

LONDON FRUIT PRICES.

The High Commissioner, London, has cabled to the^ Department of Agriculture advising the New Zealand fruit market as on April 29 as folldws: — / Akaroa consignment practically cleared. Cox's Orange and Lord' Wolseley, ex Kotorua badly jjitted. Rangitiki and Coptic discharging and in the market. Cox's Orange and Lord Wolseley show bad pit waste; others generally sound. Pears in mixed condition, some forward and wasty. Marktt overstocked and trade losing all interest in Cox's ''Orange owing to "continued poor cdndition. Market falling as a result of heavy arrivals of Australian. Current prices of apples were as follows: — "Cox's Orange, bulk, 10s to. 13s; Delicious, 9s to 14s 3d; bulk, 12s; Jonathan, Bs, 6d to 14s, bulk 12s; Cleopatra, bulk,1 11s 6<l to 12s; Dunn's, Us to 12s, bulk 9s 8d to 11s; Lord Wolseley (pitted), Bs. i "Pears: Beurre Bosc 12s to 15s per case, %'s 9s, %'s ss, trays, 3s; Josephine, 12g to 14s (id per case, %'s 9s; Pacfcliam's | Triumph, 10s 6d to 11s Gd per case; Cornice, 10s Cd to 13s per case, %'s Us Od, %'s 4s, trays 3s; Winter Cole, 9s 3d to- 12s Cd per case, %'s 9s, J/4's 3s Gd; Betirie Clairgeau (forward condition), 8s 6d to 9s; Conference, 10s 6d to 12s; P. Barry, 9s 6d and %"s 45."