LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1940, Page 14

LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

♦ Market Gardeners Limited, Wellington, report values of fruit and vegetables sold yesterday:—Poorman oranges, 4s to 9s per bushel; hothouse tomatoes, Is lid to 2s 2d per lb; outside tomatoes, 10s to 15s 3d; tree tomatoes, 7s to 10s; Chinese gooseberries, 6s to 9s, all per box. Celery, 6s to 265; carrots. 2s to 3s; beetroot, 2s to 3s; leeks, 6s to 8s; rhubarb, 16s to 20s, all per dozen bunches; cauliflower, 2s to 4s; beetroot, 3s; silver beet, 2s 6d to 4s; marrows, 4s to 4s 6d; parsnips, 6s to 10s; leeks, 4s to ss; swedes, 3s to 3s 9d; spinach, 5s to 6s l9d; lettuce, 10s; sprouts, 15s to 24s 3d; all per case; cauliflower, 4s to 10s; pumpkins, 3s to ss; cabbage, 5s to 12s 6d; swedes, 4s to 6s, all per sack; onions, 8s to 11s per cental; potatoes, £6 10s per ton. Laery and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., George D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Thompson 8r05.,. Ltd., and A. Pope and Co. report present' values as follows:—Chinese gooseberries, 7s to 11s 6d per half-case; passion fruit, 10s 6d to 15s per half-case; tomatoes, (hothouse). Is 6d to 2s 2d per lb; tree tomatoes, 8s to 13s 6d per half-case; grapefruit, New Zealand 10s to 13s 6d per bushel case; Nelson new potatoes, 3d per lb; Nelson green peas, Is per lb; potatoes, 4s to 6s 6d per cwt; onions, 7s to 11s per cental bag; kumeras. 10s to 13s 6d per sugar-bag; cabbage, 6s to 8s 6d per sack; lettuce, 7s to\l2s per case; sprouts, 12s to 17s per sugar-bag; cauliflowers, 7s to 10s 6d per sack; silver beet, Is 6d to 3s per case; spinach, 7s to 11s per case; marrows, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per case; pumpkins, 3s to 10s per sack; carrots, 4s to 5s 6d per case; swedes, 4s to ss" 6d per case; parsnips, 7s to 8s 3d per case; beetroot, 2s 6d to 4s per case; leeks, 5s to 6s 6d per case; celery, 14s to 20s per case; rhubarb, 10s to 20s per dozen bunches.