FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 14

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Bowie and Co., and W. Burbidge and Co. report fruit and vegetable values as follows:—Apples, fancy grade Delicious, 7s to 8s 6d per bushel; Stunners, 7s to Ss 6d; Doughertys, 6a 6d to 8s; Washington cookers, 7s to 8s; pears, Winter Coles, 10s to 12s; Nelis, 9s to 11s; fancy P. Barrys, 9s to 10s; lemons, New Zealand cured, 6s to 8s;- tree ripened, 4s to ss; celery, 6s to 9s per banana case; passions, short supply, 25s to 30s per box; tomatoes, hothouse local, 2s Id per pound; potatoes, South Island grown Dakotas, £5 to £6 per ton; Sutton Supreme, i5 to £6; onions, brown Spanish prime, 10s per cwt; Canterbury, 4s to 5s per cental bag; cauliflowers, best, 7s to 10s per sack; cabbage, Drumhead, 4s to ss; spring cabbage, 2s to 2s 3d per case; carrots, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack; parsnips, 4s to ss; swedes, 2s to 2a 6d; French- beans, hothouse, Is 6d per pound; asparagus, Is 7d to Is 9d per bunch; green peas, Nelson, 8d to lOd per lb; Hawke's Bay, lid to Is Id; Otaki, Is Id; new potatoes, 2'M to 2%d; Poorman oranges, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per bushel; cucumbers, hothouse, 7s 6d to 10s per dozen; kumaras, 8s 6d to 9s per banana case; pumpkins,, Grey, 5s to 6s per sack; lettuce, good heart, 6s to 8s per banana case; rhubarb, 6s to 8s per dozen bunches, forced, 8s to 10s; eggs, fresh, first grade, lOd to lid per doz.; walnuts, prime, 6d; houey, bulk, id to ihid. j