FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 79, 15 March 1934, Page 11

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., B. Bowie and Co., Ltd., and W. Burbidgo and Co. report present values as follows: — Apples.—Fancy Gravenstein, 3/- to 4/- bushel, Worcester Pearmain 2/6 to 3/6, Jonathans and Delicious 3/- to 4/6, cooking apples 3/- to 4/-, Coxes Orange 3/- to 6/-, Pears.—Fancy William Bon Chretian 2/6 to 4/6 bushel, fancy Louie Bon Jersey 5/- to 6/-. Peaches. —Choice Hobbs Late 3/6 to 4/- per half case, choice LippiateS 3/to 4/-, choice Golden Queen 3/6 to 4/6. Nectarines. —Choice 5/6 to 6/6 per half case. Quinces. —Choice 5/6 to 6/6 per bushel. Lemons. —Choice cured 15/- to 18/per bushel, others 12/- to 15/-. Tomatoes.—Choice Hutt red 2/- to 2/6 per half case, choice coloured 2/to 2/4. Grapes.—Choice hothouse 6d to 9d per lb. Cucumbers. —Choice hothouse 2/6 to 3/6 per dozen; potatoes, choice 5/- to 8/- per cwt.; onions, choice 2/6 per sugar bag; cabbage, choice 1/- to 1/6 per banana ease; lettuce, choice 1/- to "/- per banana ease; cauliflowers, choice ”/- to 9/- per sack; green peas, choice 6/- to 10/- per half sack; French beans, choice 7’- to 9/- per half seek: Scarlet Ruiiiiers, 4/6 to 6/- per banana ease; marrows, choice 1/6 to 2/- per banana ease: pumpkins. Choice, red 5/6 to 6/6 per sack; carrots, choice 2d to 3d tier buneh; parsnips, choice 7d to 74d fier btihch; SwedSs, Chdihe 1/- to 2/- banana case; white turnips, choice 1/6 to 2/- dozen bunches; spring onions, choice 66 to 1/- per dozen: beetroot, choice 3d to 46 per buneh: eggs, frMk first s«ade 1/6 m-r tlitren