WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 4

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. WELLINGTON, July 15. .Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this iveek are quoted as follows: Fruit. —Apples: Dunns, 2s 6d to 4s a bushel; Jonathans, 2s 6d to 4s 6d: Ballarats, 4s to 5s 6d; Delicious, 3s to 6s 6d; Granny Smith, 5s to 9s; Sturmers, 2s 6d to 6s ; Washingtons, 3s 6d to os. Pears: Winter Coles, 7s to 9s per three-quarter case; Winter Nelis, os 6d to 7s; cookers, 4s to 7s. Poorman oranges: 5s to 7s a bushel; passion fruit,-15s to 23s 9d a box; tomatoes, hothouse. Is to Is 4£d a pound ; tree tomatoes, black, 5s to 6s a half-case; red, 3s 6d to ss. Lemons: Cured, 12s to 14s a bushel: others, 5s to 10s.

Vegetables. —Green peas: 9d to-Is a. pound. Beans, French hothouse, lOd to Is lid. a pound. Potatoes. 6s to 7s a cwt. Kumeras, large, 4s 6d to 5s 6d a bag. Celery, 6s to 10s 6d a ease. Cauliflowers, 8s 6d to 13s 6d a sack. Cabbage, 4s to 12s a sack. Sprouts, 4s to 9s a sugar bag. Lettuce, 2s to 17s 9d a case. Spinach, 2s to 8s a case. Swedes, Is a case. Pumpkins, 6s to 9s 6d a sack. Parsnips, 2s 6d to 3s 6d a case. Carrots. 2s to 4s 6d a case. Beetroot, 3s 6d to 7s 6d a ease. Leeks, 4d to 9£d a bunch. Rhubarb. 4s to 16s per dozen bunches. Onions, 3s to 9s a cental bag. , , _, Eggs.—Fresh, hens, A grade. Is ocl per dozen; B grade, Is 4d. "Walnuts, choice, 4d to 6d a pound. AUCKLAND MARKETS. AUCKLAND, July 14. The most noticeable alteration jn the produce market since last week has been an easing in potatoes as a result of which white tables are now quoted at £7 a ton, a drop of 10s in a week. This brings them to the lowest level of the prosont season. Dakotas are still enjoying a substantial premium, being quoted unchanged at £7 15s a ton. Seed potatoes are not going off rapidly as the ground is too wet in many areas for planting. Onions are still coming to hand from Pukekoho and sell unchanged at 8s 6d per cwt. A shipment of Californian onions is also available, and for these merchants are asking 17s per 1001 b crate. Both oats and chaff are firm in the south, but there is no alteration locally, either in price or demand. Fowl wheat is in steady demand, with grade lines selling at 5s lOd per bushel and undergrade at Id to 4d less. Local maize is still in short supply and as a consequence prices remain high. The bulk of the business is done in South African, which sells at Cs 6d per bushel lor whole and Id extra for crushed. A fresh shipment of Australian barlev came to hand by the Kairanga and considerable deliveries were made direct from the ship’s side at 4s 5d per 501 b bushel. This line is very popular with feeders, particularly as maize is so dear.