FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 19

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

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

Fruit—Apples: SUirmers 7s to 10s per case, Coxes 9s to 1-Js, Delicious 8s to 10s 6d, Granny Smith 9s to 11s 9d, Rome Beauty 7s to 8s Gd, Dougherty 5s to Gs; passion fruit 11s 9d. Pear?;. Winter Cole 9s to 11s, Keiflers 9s to 10s 6d, Winter Nelis 7s to 9s: tomatoes, 6s to 9s; poorman oranges, 13s.

Vegetables'.—Cabbage, 4s to 5s per case; cauliflowers,. 4s to" 7s 6d; celery,' 3s to 4s; parsnips, 4s to 6s; carrots,] Bs.to 14s 6d; beetroot, 3s 6d to ss; pump- I kins, 6s to 8s: silver boci. Is 6d to 2s» ■ Ktuce. 2s to 6s: iceks, 4s lo 6s; swedes,)' 4s; spinach, 9s to 14s 6d; carrots, 16s V 9d per sack; pumpkins, 13s to 14s; cab-J bage, 4s to lls 6d; cauliflowers* 12s to'18s 66; turnips. 2s to 4s per dozen bunches; beetroot, 3s lo 4s; leeks, 5* to Bs;'carrots,' Gs to lls (3d per sugar bag; parnsips, 3s to ss; snrouts, 9s to 12s.

Prices are quoted by Laery and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd,, Geo. Thomas and Co.. Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Thompson Eros., Ltd.-, as follows;—

Apples: Stunners 5s to 10s a bushel case, Delicious 6s to 10s/ 9d. cooking \ 6s to 10s, Granny Smith 10s to 14s. I Pears; Winter Coles 8s to 10s 6d * s three-quarter case, cooking 7s to 10s; 1 passion fruit, 10s to 15s a half -case; \ New Zealand grapefruit, 7s to 13s a; N bushel case; tomatoes, hothouse 8d to Is a lb. tree tomatoes 5s to 8s 3d a half- ; case; beans, hothouse Is to Is 4d a lb?; potatoes, 17s to 18s a cwt; onions, 18j '■ to 22s a cental bag; celery, 3s to 6s a case; swedes, 3s to 5s a case; leeks, 4s to 6s 6d a case; marrows. 10s to 19J a sack; lettuce. 4s to 10s a case; sprouts, 6s. to 14s 3d a sugar bag; cab* bage, 5s to 12s a sack; cauliflowers, 14s >to 26s 3d a sack; kumeras, 8s to , 15s a sugar; bag; pumpkins, Triumble, , . 12« to 14s a sack, grey 8s to 10s;. sil-. . ver beet, 9d lo 4s 6d a case; carrots,. -1 10s to 17s a case; spinach, 5s to 15s .. a case; parsnips, 4s to 6s J6d a case; beet-.', root, 2s 6d to 3s 6d a case; rhifbarb,. ' 8s to 12s a dozen bunches.