FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 4

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington announce values of fruit and vegetables sold yesterday as follows:— Fruit.—Apples: Stunners, 8s to 12s 9d per case; Delicious, 10s to 15s 3d; Crofton, 12s to 14s; Dougherty, 9s to 14s 6d. Tomatoes: 6d to 9d per Ib. Gooseberries: 3s 6d to 4s. Lemons: 7s 3d. Cherry, plums: 4s 6d. Peaches: 4s 6d to 7s. Strawberries, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per bucket. Strawberries: 7Jd to Is 2d -per piinnett. Apricots: 6s, Id. Cherries: 7s.to Bs. P. Barry pears: 7s 3d to 10s. Winter Nelis pears: 7s 3d to 10s. Vegetables.—Lettuce: 6d to 3s 3d per case. Cauliflowers: Is to 2s per case. Broad beans: Is 6d to 3s per case. Spinach: Is to 3s 6d per case. Cabbage: 3s to 3s 9d per case. Peas: 3s 6d to 7s 6d per sack. Cauliflowers: 6s per sack. Kumeras: 9s to 10s per bag. Onions. 17s 6d per cental bag. Local potatoes: 12s per cwt. Beetroot, 3s to 14s per doz. bunches. Asparagus, 5s to 5s 6d per doz. bunches. Carrots, 4s to lls 6d per doz. bunches. Rhubarb, 2s to 5s per goz. bunches. Parsnips, 3s to 5s per doz. bunches. Swedes: 4s to 5s per doz. bunches.

D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., and Laery and Co., Ltd., report present values of fruit and vegetables as follows:— Apples, choice, Delicious 14s to 17s a bushel, Stunners 10s to 14s; pears, choice, Winter Coles 10s to 15s three-quarter-case, Winter Nelis 9s to 12s, P Barry 8s to 10s, Glou Merceau 10s to 12s; peaches, choice, 5s to 7s 6d halfcase; cherries, choice, 7s to 13s 101b box; strawberries, choice, Auckland Is 2d to Is 7£d punnet. Nelson 5d to Is 4d; plums, choice, bronze 5s halfcase, cherry, 3s 6d to ss; apricots, choice, 9s to 9s 6d half-case; red currants, choice, 5d to 6d pound; gooseberries, choice, 21d to 2Jd pound; tomatoes, choice, hothouse, Hutt 8d to Is pound. Nelson 6d to 7Jd; grapes, choice, hotheuse 2s Id to 2s 6d pound; cucumbers, > choice, 3s to 7s dozen; french beans, choice, hothouse 10d" to Is pound; new potatoes, choice, local lls to 14s bag, Pukekohe 6s 6d to 7s; green peas, choice, 4s to 9s bag; asparagus, choice, 4d to 5d bunch; lemons, choice, cured 9s to lls bushel, others 13s to 18s; passions, choice. 13s to 18s half-case; cauliflowers, choice, large sacks 3s to 6s sack; cabbage, choice spring, Is 6d to 4s 9d banana-case; lettuce, choice..2s to 2s 6d, others 6d to Is 6d; srjinach. choice. Is 6d to 5s banana-case; parsnips, choice, 2s ■to 4s dozen bunches; carrots, choice, 2s to 6s dozen bunches; beetroot, choice, 4s to 6s dozen bunches; rhubarb, choice, 2s to 5s dozen bunches; onions, choice, 16s 6d to 17s 6d cental bag; eggs, fresh, hens' Is 2d, medium Is Id; walnuts, fresh, ad to 63d pound.