FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
WELLINGTON QUOTATIONS. WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. Prices of fruit, .vegetables and other produce in the Wellington arkets this week are quoted as follow: — Apples.—Choice, Gravensteins, 4s to 7s per bushel case; Gcx’s Orange, 4s to 7s 6d; cookers, 3s to 4s 6d. Pears, choice, W.8.C., 4s to 6s per ij-casc. Peaches, dessert, 3s to 5s per half-case; cookers, 2s to 3s; plums, dessert, 3s to 4s per half-ease; cookers, 2s lo 2s 6d; Blue Diamond, 2s 9d to 4s; greengages, 4a 6d to 5s per half-case: nectarines, 2s 6d to 5s per half-case; apricots, 6s to 7s 6d per lmlf-caso; raspberries, 5s 6d to 7s 3d per bucket. Tomatoes, Hutt hothouse, 5s to 6s 6d per half-case; Nelson, 2s 6d to 4s; grapes, hothouse. 6d (o lOd per lb. Cucumbers, 2s to 3s per case; beans, Is to 2s per sack; new potatoes, 5s to 8s a ewt; green peas, 2s 6d to 10s per bag. Lemons, cured, 10s to 14s a bushel: others, 6s to 9s: cauliflowers, 4s to 6s a sack; cabbage, 6d to Is per case; lettuce, 2.s to 3s per case; others, Is to Is 6d; pumpkins, 5s to 8s a sack; marrows, 9d to Is a case; parsnips, 5s to 6s per dozen bundles; carrots, 2s to . 4s per dozen bunches; beetroot, 2s to 3s per dozen bunches; rhubarb, Is to Is 6d per dozen bunches; onions, 3s per sugar-bag. Eggs.—rFcsfi, lien’s, Is 6d to Is 7d per dozen; medium, Is Id to Is 2d, walnuts, choice, 5d to 6d per lb.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 63, 12 February 1936, Page 5
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