FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 10

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Market Gardeners, Limited, Wellington, report sales yesterday as follows:—Keiffer pears, 6s to 6a 6d per case; Stunner apples, 4s-to 5s per case; delicious, 4s to 4s 9d; statesman, 3s 6d to 4s; Ballarats, ss; Washington, 5s to 5s 6d; Jonathans, 3a 6d to 4s, all per case; lemons, 11s 3d, to 19s 9d per bushel case, halves, 9s to 11s Od.'per half-case; Persimmons, 2s to 2a 6d a box; tomatoes, 4s to 6s per box; rounds, 6s to 8s 3d per box; parsnips, 2s 6d to 2b lOd per case;' lettuce, 6d to 3s 6d; cauliflower, 5s to 5a 8d; cabbage, 2s 7d to 5s 6d; spinach, 3s 3d to 6s 7d; beetroot, 6d; swedes, Is 9d to 2s 4d; silver beet, Is 7d, all per case; kumeras, 2a sugar bag; pickling onions, 2s to 2s 6d per sugar bag; onions, 5s to 5s 6d per sack; pumpkins, 2s to ,4s 6d; piemelons, 5s Cd; carrots, 2s to 2a 6d; cauliflowers, 5s lOd to 17s 9d; Swedes, 2s; cabbage, 3s 9d; potatoes, 2s 6d to 4s, all per sack; leeks, 6s to 10s Od per dozen bunches; turnips, Is; beetroot, 2s to 2s 6d; rhubarb, 5s to 7s, all per dozen bunches; celery, 7d to Is 8d per bunch; cucumbers, 3s 3d to 4s 9d per dozen. >.