FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Prices of fruit, vegetables, and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by Geo. Thomas arid Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Thompson Brois:, Ltd., and Laery and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Apples, Delicious 5s to 10s per bushel, Stunners 5s to 10s, Roirie Beauty, 6s to 10s; passion fruit, choice, 20s to 29s per half-case; pears, Winter Coles 8s to 16s per three-quarter case, Winter Nelis 7s to 13s, cookers 7s to 9s; lemons, choice, ss. to 7s per bushel, others, 4s to ss; tree tomatoes, fe to 10s per half-case; grapefruit,NNetw t Zealand 4s to 5s per bushel; tomatoes, hothouse Is 6d to 2s per pound; gooseberries, 6d to 8d per lb; kumeras; 5s to 6s per sugar bag; cucumbers, hothouse, 6s to 15s per dozen; new potatoes, Pukekohe, 2d per pound; peas, 3}d to of d per id; asparagus, 5d to lOd per bunch; potatoes, 8s to 12s per.cwt; cauliflowers, 3s to lis per sack; cabbage, spring, 9d to 4s per case; lettuce, Is to ss, 6d, per case; spinach, 6d to 5s per case; swedes, spring, 6d to lOd per bunch; carrots, spring, 5d to lid per bunch; parsnips, spring, lOd to Is 2d per. bunch; beetroot, 3d to 4d per bunch; leeks, edio Is per bunch; rhubarb, 6s to lis per dozen bunches; Walnuts, 8d to, lOd per lb^ eggs, A grade Is 4d per,dozen, medium ls 3d