FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. WELLINGTON, Oct. 23. Prices of fruit, vegetables, and other ■produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted as follow: — Apples.—Delicious, 5s to 10s per bushel; Stunners, 5s to 10s; Rome Beauty, 5s to 11s. Passion fruit, choice, 14s to 17s per half-case. Pears: Winter Coles, 8s to 15s per j-casc; Winter Nclis, 8s to 10s; cookers, 7s to 9s. Lemons: Choice, 8s to 12s per bushel; others, 5s to 7s. Tree tomatoes, 6e lo 8s per half-case. Tomatoes, hothouse, Is 6d to Is lid per pound. Kumeras.—3s to 4s per sugar-bag; cucumbers, hothouse, 4s to 11s 6d per dozen; new potatoes, Pukekohc, 2d to 2|d per pound; peas, 4jd to bid per pound; asparagus, 5d to 9d per bunch; potatoes, 8s to 11s per owt. Cauliflowers, 8s to 15s 6d sack; cabbage, spring, Is to 6s 6d per case; lettuce, 4s to 13s 9d per case; spinach, 2s 6d to 6s per case; swedes, 2s to 2s 6d per sugar-bag; carrots, 12s to 17s 6d per case; spring onions, 6d to Is Id per bunch; parsnips, 11s to 13s per case; beetroot, 6d to 8d per bunch; celery, 4s to 7s per ease; leeks, 8d to lOd per bunch; rhubarb, 3s to 6s por dozen; walnuts, 8d to lOd per pound. Eggs.—A grade, Is 3d per dozen; medium, Is 2d.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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