WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 101, 31 March 1937, Page 4

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

FRUIT AX'D VEGETABLES. WELLINGTON, March 51. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this -week are quoted as follow: Apples.—New season’s,, cookers, 4s to 7s a bushel case; Cox Orange, 6s to 11=; Jonathans, 3s to 5s 6d; Delicious, 4s to 7s. Passion fruit, 6s 6d to 10s 6d per half case. Peaches: Dessert, 6s to 8s 9d; cookers, 4s to ss. Pears: Winter Coles, 4s 6d to 6s 6d per three-quarter case; L.8.J., 9s to 12s; cookers, 4s to 6s. Quinces, 6s 6d to 9s a bushel. Nectarines: 5s to 8s per half case. Cucumbers: 5s to 8s per half case. Lemons: 14s to 18s per bushel; others, 8s to 10s. Kurneras. —2s to 6s per sugar bag. Green peas: 7s to 17s 6d per sack. Tomatoes, local coloured: Is 6d to 2s 3d per case; local ripe, Is 6d to 2s. Marrows: Is 3d to 3s per case. Capo gooseberries: 4s to 5s per half case. Grapes, hothouse. Is to 2s Id per pound. Beans: 6s to 16s 3d per case. Pie melons: 5s to per sack. Potatoes: 4s to 7s a cwt. Pumpkins: 5s to 8s a sack. Lettuce: 2s to 6s per case. Spinach : 3s to 7s per case. Swedes: 2s 6d to 4s 3d per ease. Carrots: 4s to 6s 6d per case. Parsnips: 4s to 5s 6d per case. Beetroot: Is to 2s per case. Celery: 6d to 2s per bunch. Leeks: 3d to 6d per bunch. Cabbage: 9d to 2s per case. Onions: Pukckohe: 4s to 4s 6d per sugar bag. Rhubarb: 6s to 9s per dozen bunches. Eggs.— ls 9d to Is lOcl per dozen. AUCKLAND MARKETS. AUCKLAND. March 30. Potatoes arc cheaper owing to supplies coming in heavily from Pukekohe. Manawatu are selling at £8 15s per ton, and Pukekohe at 3s 6d per sugar bag. Little more maize is available in the Bav of Plenty. The price is unaltered at 7e lid per bushel. Bran is still plentiful and dull of sale at £6. The mill price of pollard is quoted at £7 a ton. Barley stocks are very short, and feed clipped are quoted at 6s Id per bushel, and undipped at 5s 9d. The market for chaff is very firm at £9 10s for southern.