FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Market Gardeners Ltd.. Wellington, announce values of fruit and vegetables sold at yesterday's sales. Fruit: Apples—Delicious 9s to 13s od a case, Stunners 7s 6d to 12s, Granny Smiths 11s to 16s: pears—Winter Cole 10s to 13s 6d, Nelis 7s to 8s 9d, Vicars 7s to Bs, Packhams 7s to 8s 9d. Vegetables: Silver beet. Is to 3s a case; cabbage. 2s to 3s 6d; leeks, 3s to 5s 9d; beetroot, 6s; swedes. 2s to 3s; lettuce, 2s to 11s; spinach. 6s to 7s; carrots. 8s to 13s; parsnips. 3s to ss; cauliflowers, 3s to 6s a sack; swedes. 3s to 6s; Cauliflowers, 11s to 16s; onions, 20s to 22s a cental bag; beetroot, 3s to 4s a doz. bunches; celery, 4s to 12s; turnips, 2s to 3s; leeks, 6s to 9s; asparagus, 7s to 11s; rhubarb, 14s 6d. Prices quoted by Laery and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd.. and A. Pope and Co., Ltd., are as follows:—Apples —Stunners, 6s to 10s a bushel case,' Delicious 7s to 15s. cooking 7s to 12s, Granny Smith 10s to 15s, Rome Beauty 7s to 11s; pears—Winter Coles 8s to 13s 9d a I case, Winter Nelis 7s to 10s, P. Barry 9s to 11s; passion fruit, 8s to 15s a i case: N.Z. grapefruit, 12s 6d to 15s a bushel case; potatoes. 14s to 20s a cwt; new potatoes, Nelson. 4d a lb; onions, 18s to 20s a cental bag; hothouse cucumbers, 8s to 17s doz; celery, 7s to 13s a case; swedes, 2s 6d to 3s a sugar bag; leeks, 2s.to 4s a case; lettuce, 2s to 11s a case; cabbage, 3s to 5s a sack; spring, Is 6d to 4s a case; cauliflowers, 7s to 16s a sack; pumpkins, triumble, 40s to 44s a sack; grey, 20s to 30s; silver beet, Is 6d to 3s 6d a case; carrots, 10s to 20s a case; spinach, 4s to 10s a case; parsnips, 3s to 5s a case; beetroot, 4s to 6s 9d a case; rhubarb, new' season's, 16s to 22s a doz. bunches.