FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 21

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Prices of fruit, vegetables, and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted By Bowie and Co., Ltd., Burbiage and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., and Laery and Co., Ltd.', as follows:— • Apples, (new.season's), Granny Smith 7s to 8s 6d per bushel case, cookers 3s to ss; Cox's Orange 3s to 9s, Jonathans 3s to 5s 6d, Delicious 3s to ss, Stunners 4s to ss; passion fruit, 9s to 12s per case; pears, Winter. Coles 8s to 11s per case, cookers 5s to 7s, Keiffers 6s to 8s 6d; cucumbers, outside 10s to 18s per case; .lemons, choice 14s to 19s per bushel, others 6s to 12s; kumeras, 2s to 4s per sugar-bag; green peas, 5s to 19s per sack; tomatoes, local coloured 3s to 4s 6d per half-case, local, ripe, 4s to ss-; tree tomatoes, 6s 6d to 9s; marrows, Is to 2s 6d per • case; cape gooseberries, 5s 6d to 6s 6d rjer halfcase; grapes, hothouse, Is 6d to 2s 2d a pound; beans, 9s to 16s 6d a case; pie-melons, 9s to 12s a sack; sprouts, 10s to 13s 3d a bag; potatoes, 5s to 8s a cwt; pumpkins, 5s to 8s a sack; cauliflowers, 3s to 13s a sack; cabbage, 4s to 8s 9d a sack; lettuce, 4s to 14s 9d a case; spinach, Is 6d to 4s a case; swedes, 2s to 5s 6d a case; carrots, 6s to 8s a case; parsnips, 3s 6d to 7s 3d a case; beetroot, Is to 2s fid a case; celery, 6s to 10s a case; cabbage, 9d to 3s a case; onions, 7s 6d to 10s per cental bag;' leeks, 6s to 10s a case; rhubarb, 3s to 7s per dozen bunches; walnuts, 7d to- 8d a pound; eggs, A grade 2s 9d per dozen, mediums 2s 7d, pullets 2s. Market Gardeners Ltd., Wellington, announce values of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales:—

Fruit. —Apples, Jonathan 4s to 7s per case, Dunns 3s to ss, Delicious 4s to ss, Ballarats 5s to 6s, Granny Smith 7s to 9s, Stunners 4s to ss'4d, Washington 6s to 7s; Winter Cole pears, 7s to 9s; lemons, 10s to 16s 3d; chestnuts, 3£d to 4d per 1b; tomatoes, 3s to 6s; passion fruit, 7s to 9s 9d.

Vegetables.—Marrows, Is 6d to 2s 8d per case; swedes, Is 6d to 4s; cabbage, 2s; beetroot, 2s 6d; spinach,.ls to.3s 8d; lettuce, Is 9d to 8s 9d; silverbeet, 6d to la; carrots, 4s 9d to 8s; beans, 8s to 12s 9d; pie melons, 9s to 12s 6d per sack; beans, 10s to 15s; peas, 8s to 16s 6d; cabbage. 2s 6d to 7s 3d; cauliflowers, 4s 9d to 9s; onions. 8s 6d per cental bag; potatoes, £7 to £8 per ton; sprouts, 13s to 13s 9d per sugar bag; carrots, 3s to 6s per doz bunches; turnips, Is 6d to 2s; rhubarb, 2s to ss; leeks, 6s to 9s 6d; beetroot, 3s to 4s. .

Tomorrow, under instructions from the Public Trustee, H. Ernest Leighton, Ltd., will sell by public auction in their rooms, 22 Brandon Street, Wellington, a Silverstream property in the Seagar Estate of some 408 acres, situated just south of the railway, bridge. Full details will be found in the auc-