FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 14

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Prices of fruit, vegetables, and othsr produce on the Wellington markets are quoted by Thompson Bros., Laery and Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd , D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul Ltd., and George Thomas and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Apples: New season's, Gravensteins, 8s 6d to 12s per bushel case; cookers, 5s 6d to 7s; Cox's Orange 7s to 10s; Worcesters, 4s to 6s; pears. W.8.C., 6s to 8s 6d per ;]-case, L.B.J. 6s 6d to 8s; greengages, 8s to 10s per half-case; peaches choice dessert, 7s to 9s per half-case, cookers 5s to 6s 6d; apricots, choice 6s to 8s per half-case, others 4s to 5s 6d; nectarines, 6s to 9s 6d per half-case; plums, Purple Kings 8s to 10s 6d per half-case, Burbanks 5s to 8s 6d Blue Diamonds 6s to 7s, Doris 8s to 9s, Monarch 6s to 7s; raspberries, 8s 6d to 11s 6d per tin; cucumbers, outside 6s to 10s per case; lemons, choice 12s to 17s a bushel, others 6s to 10s; kumeras, H.B. 7s to 8s per sugarbag; green peas, 2s 6d to 9s per sack; marrows, 6d to Is per case; tomatoes, local hothouse 4d to 6d per Ib, Nelson red 5s 6d to 7s 6d per half-case, coloured 4s 6d to 5s 6d; grapes, H. 8., 7Jd to Hid a lb; beans, Id to 2d a lb; scarlet runners, ljd to 2£d a lb: potatoes, 5s 6d to 8s 6d a cwt; pumpkins, 4s to 6s a sack; cauliflowers, 3s to 7s a sack; lettuce. 3d to Is per case; spinach, 4s 6d to 7s a case; swedes, 3s per case; carrots. 6d to Is Id a bunch; parsnips, 3d to 7d a bunch; beetroot. Id to 2d a bunch; cabbage, Is to 3s per case; onions, Pukekohe 5s per sugarbag; rhubarb, 2s to 5s per dozen bunches; eggs, Is lOd to Is lid per dozen.