PRODUCE MARKET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22626, 1 May 1948, Page 8

PRODUCE MARKET

WELLINGTON RATES SHORTAGES REPORTED Supplies of fruit and vegetables have been particularly short again this week, (lie demand being far in excess of the supply, states Hie weekly report of Messrs Townsend and Paul, Limited, fruit and produce merchants, Wellington. All greens were in particularly short supply and were urgently wanted. The demand for tree tomatoes, Chinese gooseberries and feijoias was good and all citrus were realising ceiling prices. Good supplies of flowers had been offered, with values slightly easier. Quotations: —Poaches, 12s to ISs; plums, 15s to 225: tree tomatoes. 12s 6d to 20s G<]; passionfruit., Ss to ISs; feijoias, 0s to 9s; Cape gooseberries, 17s to 2Rs; chokos, 6s to'Ss halfease; quinces, Ss to 12s case; Meyer lemons, N.’/,. grapefruit, ceiling; grapes. Is 6d to 2s fid 11.. : mushrooms, Rood inquiry; tomatoes, ripe 5s to Ss, coloured Gs to 9s fid; violets, 4s to Ss; gladioli, 7s to 9s doz.; chrysanthemums, Bs to 12s; carnations, 3s to 14s; dahlias. 6s to 14s per dozen bunches; beetroot, 7s to 12s: carrots, from 15s to ceiling; cauliflower. ISs to 265; celery, 7s to 14s; cucumbers, 3s to Ss; leeks. 24s to 30s; spinach. 25s to 30s; rhubarb, 11s to 15s; lettuce, 10s to 20s; marrows, 3s to 6s case; sweet corn, 5s to 9s bn": pumpkins, market oversupplied, 4s to Ss sack; cabbage, kumarns, swedes, silverbeet. parsnips, ceiling; peas, 6d to lid; beans, butter Sd to Is. stringless fid to Is 2d, scarlet runner fid to 8d lb; White Leghorn hens, 2s 9d to 4s 3d; Butt Orpinghlon hens, 4s to 10s; Rhode Island Red hens, 7s to Ss 6d; pullets, best. Ss to 10s; roosters. 3s fid to 5s fid: coloured ducks, 3s to 8s 6d; rekin ducks, Gs to 15s.