FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1939, Page 20

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington announce values of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales:— esexaDies Fruit.—Apples: Delicious 9s to 13s per case, Stunners 9s to 12s, Granny f n mi q th *<£ to. .13s 6d. Rome Beauty 8? to 9s, Washington 7s to 12s; pears

Vegetables.—Cabbage 4s to- 6s per case; leeks 4s to 7s; parsnips 4s to 8s; beetroot 3s to 4s; carrots 6s to 12sswedes 3s to ss; lettuce 9s to 12s 9d: spinach 15s to 19s 6d; sprouts 12s to 20s; celery 3s 6d to 6s; silverbeet 3s to 4s 6d; swedes 5s to 7s per sack; cabbage bs to 7s 6d; cauliflowers 15s to 27sonions 18s to 22s per cental bag; potatoes £18 to £21 per ton; carrots 5s to 7s per sugar bag; parsnips 4s to 6s; carrots Is to 4s per doz. bunches; beetroot 2s fo 4s; rhubarb 16s t 22s- turnips 2s to 4s; leeks 6s to 12s. :T^ riC mS are °.voted by Laery and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., as follows:—

Apples.—Stunners 7s to 11s a bushel case; Delicious 8s to 14s 6d; cooking 7s to 10s 6d; Granny Smith 10s to 14s 9d Pears: Winter Coles 7s to 10s 6d a three-quarter case; Winter Nelis 6s 6d to 8s 6d; passion fruit, 12s to 18s a half case; New Zealand grapefruit 7s to 10s a bushel case: tomatoes, hothouse, 8d to Is 4d a Ib; tree tomatoes 6s to 8s a half case; beans, hothouse. Is to Is 4d a lb; potatoes, 16s to 21s a cwt; onions 20s to 22s a cental; celery 3s 6d to 6s a case; leeks 4s to 6s a case; lettuce 5s to 16s 6d a case; sprouts 8s to 15s a sugar bag; swedes 3s 6d to 7s a case; cabbages 4s 6d to 11s a sack; cauliflowers 16s to 28s a sack; kumeras 12s to 15s a sugar bag; pumpkins, trimble, 15s to 21s super sacks; grey 11s to 15s; silverbeet Is 6d to 5s a case; carrots 6s to 12s a case; spinach 9s to 18s a case; parsnips 4s to 6s 6d a case; beetroot 2s 6d to 4s 6d a case; rhubarb 8s to 18s a dozen bunches.