FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 12

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. Burbidgo and Co., report present values as follows: —Apples, fancy grade Delicious 8s to 10s per bushel, Stunners 7s to 8s; cherries, 4s to 7s per box; strawberries, Auckland Wtd to Is 5d per punnet, Nelson 9d to Is; loganberries, 8d; lemons, New Zealand, cured 10s to 12s per bushel, tree ripened 5s to 7s; grapes, hothouse 2s per pound: gooseberries, 3V*d per lb; passions, 18s to 20s per box; plums, bronze 3s per half-case, cherry 2s to 2s, 6d; peaches, Mayflower 7s to 10s, others 3s to 5s 6d; black currants, 7s per 101b box; red currants, 3s 6d to 4s; onions, ex- cool store, os to 6s per crate; cauliflowers, best Is to Is 6d per banana case; cabbage, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; carrots, 3d to 5d per b,unch; parsnips. 5d to Gd; tomatoes, Hutt hothouse 5d per lb, Nelson red 5s 6d to 6s per half-case, well coloured 6s to 6s 6d, coloured 5s 6d to 5s 9d; marrows, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per banana case; French beans, 4d per lb; green peas, 4s to 5s per cental bag; new potatoes, 4s to 4s 6d per banana case; cucumbers, hothouse 3s to 4s per I dozen; lettuce, good heart 2s to 4s per banana case; rhubarb, 2s to 5s per dozen bunches; eggs, fresh, first grade, Is 3d per dozen; walnuts, prime, 7Md to lOd per lb.