FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 16

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington, announce sales of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales:— Vegetables.—Apples, Delicious 5s to 8s per case, Stunners 5s to 7s, Dougherty 3s to 5s 6d, Ballarats 4s to 5s 6d, Rome Beauty 5s to 7s; pears, Winter Nelis 4s to 6s, Winter Cole <5s to 8s; lemons 4s to 6s; tomatoes, Is 9d +o 2s per lb; passion fruit, 13s 6d; cabbage, 4s to 8s 3d per case; carrots, 3s to 4s 6d; beetroot, 2s to 6s; parsnips, 4s to Us 6d; swedes, 3s to 4s; spinach, 3s to 5s 9d; lettuce, 4s to 11s 6d; cauliflowers, 3s to 8s 8d; marrows. 3s to 4s; cauliflowers, 6s to 14s per sack; pumpkins, 21s; cabbage. 5s to 9s: potatoes, 5s to 6s; onions, 13s 6d per cental bag; carrots, Is to 4s per dozen bunches; beetroot, 2s to 4s; rhubarb, 10s to 12s; parsnips, 7s, leeks, 9s to lls; asparagus, 6s to 12s; cucumbers, 7s to 10s bd per dozen. Prices of produce are reported by Laery and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros,, Ltd D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd!, Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., as follows:— „. n rA Apples.—Granny Smith, 7s to 9s 6d a bushel, Delicious 4s to Bs, cookers, 4s to 6s, Stunners 4s to 7s; pears, Winter Coles 5s to 9s a three-quarter case. Winter Nelis 5s to 7s 6d, P. Barry 7s to 9s 3d; tomatoes, hothouse, 2s a lb; cucumbers, hothouse, 7s to 15s a dozen; asparagus, lib bunches, 9d to Is Ida bunch; passion fruit 5s 6d to 14s a nalfcase; lemons, 4s to 6s a bushel; N.Z. grapefruit, 8s to 12s a bushel; peas, lOd to Is lid a lb; potatoes, Nelson 2d to 2|d a lb, Fukekohe 2d to 3|d, others 4s to 5s 6d a cwt; kumeras, 2s to 3s a sugar-bag; onions, 12s to 13s a cental bag; pumpkins, red, 14s to 20s a sack, triumble 18s to 27s 6d; lettuce, 6s to 13s 6d a case; leeks, 10s to 14s 6d a case; cabbage, spring, 4s to 8s a case; cualiflowers, 7s to 13s 6d a sack; spinach, 3s to 8s a case; swedes, 2s 6d to 5s a case; silver beet, 3s to 7s; carrots, 2s 6d to 6s; parsnips, 3s to 9s; beetroot, Is 6d to ss; marrows, 3s to 6s 6d; celery, 14s to 19s 6d jrhubarb, 6s to 16s a dozen bunches. Eggs, A grade Is 4d a dozen, B grade Is 2d.