FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1933, Page 10

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

The Wellington fruit brokers advise Mint the following sales of fruit and vegetables have been made on their markets: — Apples: Extra Fancy Delicious, 7a to 8s per bushel; Jonathans, Gs to 7s; Sturmere, 0s to 7s; Granny Smith, 6s 6d to 8s 6d;'Other varieties, 3s to 4s; Washington ' and Ballarat cookers, 4s 6d to 5s 6d. Pears: Winter Coles, 10s t0,125; Nelis. 7s 6d to 9s; Keiffers, Gs 6d to 8s; P. Barrj's, Gs to 7s. Lemons: New Zealand cured, 12s to 14s; others, 8s to 10s. Celery: 10s to 14s per banana case; passions, short supply, 18s to 22s per box; tomatoes, hothouse, Is to Is Gd per lb; potatoes, South Island-grown Dnkotas, £7 to £7 10s per ton; Sutton Supreme, £6 10s; local, 3s-to 4s per cwt; cauliflowers, 7s to 10s per sack; cabbage, Savoy, 12s to 14s; drumhead, 8s to 0s 6d; carrots, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; parsnips, 5s to Gs; swedes, 2s 6d to 3s per cwt; sprouts, 10s to 14s banana case; trench beans, hothouse, Is 3d to Is Del per lb; green peas, 6d to 9d; new potatoes, 3d to 3%d; kumeras, 6s to 7s per sugar bag; poorman oranges, 5s to 6s per bushel; cucumbers, hothouse, 7s to 10s por dozen; pumpkins, red squash, 6s to 7s per sack; groy, 4s Gd to 5s Gd; lettuce, best, 0« to 12s per banana case; rhubarb, 5s to 10s per dozen bunches; eggs, first grade, Is 3d to Is 4d per dozen; walnuts, prime, Gd per lb; honey, bulk, 4d per lb; comb, Cs 6d to to 7s 6d dozen (sections.