FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 120, 24 May 1939, Page 19

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Market Gardeners, Limited, Wellington, announce values of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales:—

' Fruit—.Attples. Stunners 6s trt 7s pep case, Jonathan 6s to B<s 6d. Washington 6s to Bs, Granny Smith 8s to fig fid. "Delicious Rs to 7s. Dougherty 6s to 6s 6d;. pears, Keiffer 68 ta Bs, Nelis fte to 8s; tomatoes, 4* 6d to 7s; grapes, 2s 66 .to 2s 8d per lb. Vegetables.—Silver beet. Is to 3s per case: cabbage, 3s to 5s 3d; lettuce, 8s to 16s 6d; spinach, 6s 9d to 12s; leeks, 6s to 7s 3d; marrows. 6s to .7a ed; swedes. 4s; carrots, 3s 9d to 7s; scrouts, 10s to 295; hothouse beans, Is Id t>er lb; cabbage, 8s to 15s per sack: swedes, 5s to 7s: pumpkins. 6s to 12s; cauliflowers. 8s; peas. 13s to 265; t>Gtattfesr, 9s to lls; beetroot, 3s per doz. bunehfts? carrots. 3s to 0s per doi. bunches; turnips, 2s to 4s per doz. bunches; rhtf*barb. 9s to 13s per doz. bunches. Prices ar° reported by Laery and Co., Ud., Townssrid and Paul. Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co.. Ltd.. D. .-Bnvrte and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros.. Ltd., as follows:— . " ■

Apples. Stunners 4s to 78 ft bushel case. Delicious 5s to Bs, cooking 4s to 7s, Jonathans 4s 6d to 8s 6d. Granny Smith 7s to 10s; pears, cooking? Ss t& 8s 6d a three-quarter case, Winter Coles 8s to 12s, Kei/fer 6s to Bs' <!d; grapes, hothouse 2s 6d to 3s Id a lb; " passion fruit, 9s to 13s-6d a half-case; Cape gooseberries, 5s to 7s "a half-cage; peaches, 4s to 5s a half-case: tomatoes, local outside 3s fid to 6s lOd a case, round 4s to 7s 4d, tree tematoes -5r to 7S 6d a half-case; beans, 14s te-37* a case; peas, 17s to 25s a sack; potatoes, 8s to lls a cwt; onions, 18s to-JO* a cental bag; celery. 4s to 8s 3d a cisc; gwedeg, 4s to 6s 6d a case; marrow*, 4s 6d to 7s 4d a case; lettuce, 6s to 14a a case; sprouts, 12s to 16s a sugar hag; cabbage, 7s to 14s 6d a sack; cauliflowers, 8g to 17s a sack pumpkins, (J« to 10s a sack; silver beet,. Is to 3s a case; carrots. 6s to 16s 9d a ease; spinach, 8s to. 14s fid a ease; parsnips, 4s to 7s a ease; beetroot, 2s to 4s a case; rhubarb, 8s to lls per dozen bunches. . -