FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 4

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices Prices of fruit, vegetables, aud othor produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by Laery and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Goo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Townsend ami Paul, Limited, D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., and W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., as follow: — Peaches: Choice Akaraua, 3/- to 4/ per half-case; Kalamazoo, 3/- to 4/-; Gold Dust, 4/- to 7/-. Plums: Doris, 6/6 to 7/- per halfcase; Grand Duke, 3/6 to 4/6; Monarch, 3/- to 4/-; October Purple, 5/6 to 6/-. Cape gooseberries, 4/- to 5/- per half-ease; nectarines, Gold Mine, 5/- to 7/6; greengages, 5/6 to 8/-. Apples: Cox's Orange, 5/- to 7/6 a bushel; Worcester Permain, 3/- to 4/-; Ballarats, 4/- to 4/6; others, 3/- to 4/-. Pears: W.8.C., "/■ to 9/- a bushel; L.8.J., 6/- to 8/-. Cucumbers, 1/6 to 2/- per case. Lemons, cured, 1-7/- to 2(1/- a bushel; others, 10/- >0 15/-. Passions, 3/- to 4/6 a half-case. Grapes, hothouse, 7d to lt»J<l a pound. Green peas, 18/- to 22/6 a halt-sack; others, 12/- to 15/-. French beans. 5/ to 13/- a half-case. Stringless beans, 5d a ml. Runner beans. 5/ to 7/6 a ease. Marrows, 2/6 tn 3/6 a ease. Pumpkins. 8/- tn 11/- per sack. Cabbage, t '■ to 6/- a case. Cauliflowers 11/ tn It/- per sack. Lettuce, 2/6 |o 3/6 a ease; others. I tn 1/6. Parsnips. 3 6 to ">/■ a ease. Carrots, 7/- to 9/ per sack. Beetroot, 2/6 to 3/- per sack. Swedes. 4/- to 6/- a case. Potatoes: Prime Suttons. 8/- to 9/ per cwt.; others, 6 to 7/-. Onions. 4 / >> to 5/6 per sugar bag. Spring onions. 1/to 1 9 a bunch, liocl; melons, 1/6 Io 5/6 a bushel case. Water melons, 5d to 1/6 each. Pie melons. 5/6 to 7/- per sack. Kumeras, 8/- to 9/- a sugar Eggs: Fresh, hens. 1/2 In 1/3 per dozen: pullets. lOd.