FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 97, 24 April 1940, Page 20

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Prices of fruit and vegetables in the Wellington market this week are quoted by Messrs. Laery and Co Ltd., Townsend and Paul, .Ltd., George Thomas and Co., .Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Thompson Bros., Ltd., and A. Pope ■ and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Quinces, 6s to 11s a bushel; Grapes, hothouse, Is 6|d to 2s 4d a lb; peaches, 4s 6d to 8s half-case; Cape gooseberries, 7s to 8s 6d half-case; passion fruit, 9s to 11s hali-case. Tomatoes, Hutt, coloured, 4s to 6s half-case; ripe, 6s to 8s 9d half-case; mushrooms, field, 6d to Is lb. Potatoes, 5s to 7s cwt; onions, 9s to 12s cental bag; beans, 9s to 17s case; green peas, 10s to 23s sack; cucumbers, outside, 5s to 8s case; lettuce, 4s to 9s 3d case; cabbage, 5s to 6s 6d super sack; pie melons, 5s to 6s sack; cauliflowers, 6s to 9s super sack; silver beet, 9d to'3s case; spinach, 3s to 5s 6d case; marrows, Is to 2s. case; pumpkins, 4s to 7s super sack; carrots, 3s to 5s case; swedes, 2s to 4s case; parsnips, 4s to 5s case; beetroot, 2s 6d to 5s case; leeks, 4s to 6s case; celery, 3s to 5s case; rhubarb, 6s to 11s dozen bunches.

A fine performance was given on Sunday afternoon at Oriental Bay by the Wellington Boys' Institute Band, which recently won the B grade championship of New Zealand at the Centennial contest.