FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1933, Page 10

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co.,' Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., and W. Burbidge and Co. "report present values as follows:—Apples: Fancy grade Delicious, 9s to lls per bushel; Stunners, 10s to 15s; Dougherty's, 8s 6d to 9s 6d. Pears: Winter Coles, 14s to 16s; Nelis, lls to 13s; fancy P. Barrys, lls to 12s 6d; other varieties, 8s to 9s. Lemons: New Zealand cured, 10s to 14s; tree ripened, 5s to 7s; passions, 18s to 20s per box; gooseberries, 5d to 7d per lb; bronze plums, 7s per half case; potatoes, South Islandgrown Dakotas £6 to £7 per ton, Button Supreme £5 10s to £6 10s; onions, Brown Spanish, prime, 9s to 10s per bag; ex cool store, 9s per crate, 7s to 8s per bag; cauliflowers, lls to 14s per sack; cabbage, spring, 2s to 4s 3d' per case; carrots, spring, 5d to 8d per bunch; parsnips, spring,. 6d to 8d; swedes, 4s to 5s per cwt; tomatoes, hothouse, lid to Is per lb; asparagus, 4d to 7d per bunch; French beans, hothouse, Is 7d to Is lOd per lb; green peas, Nelson 2%d to 3d, Hawke's Bay .2%d to 3d, Otaki 2%d to 3d; new i potatoes, Pukekoho, 6s (id to 7s per bag; kumeras, 5s 6d to 6s 6d.per sugar bag; cucumbers, hothouse, Cs to 10s per. dozen; rhubarb, 3s to 6s per dozen bunches; lettuce, good heart, 3s 6d to 5s per banana case; eggs, fresh, first grade, lOd to lid per dozen: walnuts, prime, 7%d to 9d per ,Ib.