FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 14

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Prices of fruit, vegetables, and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., and Townaend and Paul, Ltd., as follows: —

Apples: Delicious 6s to 9s per bushel case, Stunners 8s to 12s; pears, large Winter Coles 9s to 12s per three-quar-iter case, small Winter Coles 6s to 7s, Winter Nelis 7s to 9s, P. Barry 7s to 9s; cherries, local 4s to 7s per 101b box, I Canterbury 8s; Plums, bronze 7s to 8s per half-case, cherry 6s to 7s; cucumbers, hothouse 4s to 10s a dozen, outside 8s to 10s 6d half-case; lemons, cured 9s to 12s a bushel, others 5s to 8s; green peas, 10s to 14s per cental bag; potatoes, 6s to 8s a sack; asparagus, 5d to 9d per pound bunch; tomatoes, hothouse, local, lOd to Is per pound, Nelson 6d to 8d: strawberries, Hawke's Bay Is 2d to Is 9d per lib punnet, local lOd to Is Id, Motueka 6d to Is Id; gooseberries, choice, 2|d to 3id a pound; new potatoes, Pukekohe 4s to 5s per sugar bag; cauliflowers, 2s '3d to 6s 6d per case; lettuce, choice 6s to 8s per case, others 2s to ss; spinach, 2s to 7s 6d per case; swedes, new season's, 3d to 6d per bunch; parsnips, new season's, 4d to 7d per bunch; carrots, new season's, 3d to 6d per bunch; beetroot, new season's, 3d to 6d per bunch: spring cabbage, 6d to Is 6d a case; white turnips, IJd to 3d per bunch; rhubarb, 3s to 6s per dozen bunches. Eggs: A grade Is 4d per dozen, B grade Is 3d. Walnuts, choice, 8d to 9d a pound.

Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington announce values of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales: — Fruit. —Apples, Stunners 9s to 12s per case, Delicious 6s to Bs, Doherty 4s 6d to 5s 6d; grapefruit, 10s 6d to Us 6d; strawberries, 9Jd to Is Id per punnet: hothouse tomatoes, 9d to Is Id per lb; gooseberries, 2£d to 3d per lb; cherries, 7s 3d to 9s 6d; gooseberries, 3s lOd to 4s 6d per box; dessert plums, 7d to Is 2d per punnet. Vegetables.—Cauliflowers, Is 6d to 6s 9d per case; lettuce, 3s to 6s 8d per case; cabbage, 4d to Is 6d per case; spinach. Is od to 3s 6d per case; silverbeet, Is 6d per case; carrots, 8s per case; peas, 9s to 15s 6d per sack; cauliflowers, 9s to 15s per sack; onions, 10s to 22s 6d per cental bag; new potatoes, 5s per sugar bag; spring onions, 4s to 9s per dozen bunches; turnips, 3s per dozen bunches; carrots, 4s to 10s 6d per dozen bunches; parsnips, 6s to 6s 6d per dozen bunches: beetroot, 6s to 7s 6d per dozen bunches; leeks, 2s to 4s per dozen bunches; rhubarb. 4s to 6s per dozen bunches; asparagus, 9s 6d per dozen bunches; cucumbers, 4s to 7s per dozen.