FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 6

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted by George Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros. Ltd., Townsend and Paul Ltd., Laery and Co,, Ltd., W. Burbidge &nd Co., Ltd., and D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., as follow :— Apples: Choice, Rome Beauty, 4/. to 5/- a bushel: Ballarats, 4/6 to 5/6; Jonathans, 4/- to 7/6; Delicious, 6/- to 9/-; Granny Smith, 6/- to 8/-; Sturmers 3/- to 5/-; Washington. 4/6 to 6/-; Doughertys, 4/- to 4/6. Pears: Choice, Winter Coles, 6/- to 8/- per three-quarter case; Winter Nelis, 6/- to 7/-; Vicars, 5/6 to 6/6; P Barry, 6/6 to 8/-; Keifl'ers, 6/6 to 7/6. Tomatoes Choice, hothouse, 9d to 1/3 a pound. Tree tomatoes.: Choice, black, 6/6 to 7/6 a half-case; red, 4/6 to 5/6.. Lemons: Choice, cured, 9/- to 11/- a bushel; others, 5/- to 7/-. Poorman oranges, choice, 6/- to 7/- a bushel. Passions, choice, 15/- to 22/6 a halfcase. French beans. Choice, hothouse. Wd to 1/- a pound. Leeks, choice, 4d to 9d a bunch. Marrows, choice, 1/6 tg 2/6 a case. Pumpkins, choice, 3/- to 6/- a sack. Cabbage, choice, 9/- to 13/- a sack. Cauliflowers, choice, 13/to 16/- a sack: Lettuce, choice, 4/- to 6/- a case; others, 1/6 to 2/6. Spinach, choice, 2/6 to 8/- a case. Parsnips, choice, 4/- to 5/6 a case. Carrots, choice, 4/- to 5'6 a case. Beetroot, choice. 1/- to 2/- a case. Swedes, choice, 1/6 .to 2/6 a case. Celery, choice, 2/- to 4/- per dozen heads. Rhubarb, choice, 51- to 13/- per dozen bunches. Potatoes, prime, Suttons, 8/6 to 9/6 a cwt.; Dakotas, 7/6 to 8/-. Onions, prime, 14/- to 15/- per cental bag. Ktimeras, choice, 4/6 to 5/6 per sucrar bag. Eggs: Fresh, hens. 1/9 a dozen. Honey, fresh, in sections. 5/6 to 71per dozep sections. Walnuts, fresh, 4d to 7d per pound.