FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

L'aery : and Co., Ltd., George Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townseud and Paul, Ltd., D. Bowie and Co.,' Ltd., W; Burbidge and Co., report present values as follows: —Apples, Fancy Gravensteins 4s to 5s 6d per bushel, Jonathan and Delicious 4s to 6s, cooking apples 3s 6d to ss, Cox's Orange 4s to 7s; pears, Fancy Winter Coles and Nelis 3s 6d to 4s 6d, Louie Bon Jersey 5s to 6s 6d, cookers 3s 6d to 4s 6d; peaches, Hobbs late'3s 6d to 5s per. half-case, Golden Queen 4s to 6s; passions, 3s to 4s 6d; quinces, 6s 6d to 8s per bushel; lemons, cured 15s to. 18s, others 10s to 13s; tomatoes, Hutt red 4s to 5s per half-case, coloured 4s 6d to ss; grapes, hothouse, lOd to Is per.lb; cucumbers, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per banana case: potatoes, Suttons 6s 6d to 7s ■ per cwt, Dakotas 7s; onions, 2s 6d per sugar'bag; cabbage, Is to 2s 3d per banana case; lettuce, Is 6d to 2s 6d; cauliflowers, 6s^to 8s per sack; green peas' 9s to 14s ,per..half-sackj french beans, 6s to Bs;,scarlet runners, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per banana case; marrows, 2s 3d to 3spumpkins, red, 6s to, 7s per sack; car™sv Iwd to 2%d per bunch; parsnips, 3d to 4d; swedes, Is 6d to 2s 6d per banana case; white-turnips, Is 6d to "s ncr dozen bunches; spring onions, Is to 2s. per bunch; beetroot, 3d to 4d-" eccs fresh, first grade, Is 9d per dozen. Auckland mill prices for • pollard ■ have been' loweredlOs and are. now £6 per ton Branas.urialteredat £5 10s. to which price it was reduced, on March 13.