FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 15 February 1939, Page 4

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in tho Wellington markets this week are quoted as follow: Apples.—Coxes, 8s to 10s a bushel; Gravenstein, 5s t.o 12s a bushel ; rooking, 4s 6d to 9s a bushel. Pears, W.8.C., 7s to 10s a 5-ease. Raspberries. 7s to 10s 6d a tin ; grapes, hothouse, 5d to Is Id a lb. Plums; Dessert, 4s to 5s a half-caso; cooking, 3s to 5s a half-ease; Blue Diamond, 3s 6d to 5s 6d a half-ease. Passion fruit, 5s to 8s a Lease. Peaches, 3s to 6s 6d a half-case; nectarines, 5s to 9s a half-casegreengages, 6s t,o 9s a half-ease; apricots, 2s to 7s 6d a half-case. Tomatoes. —Nelson, coloured, 4s to 4s 6d a half-caw: ripe, 5s to 8s a half-case; local outside, 4s to 6s a ease. Beans, 5s to 10s a case; cucumbers, outside, 17s to 22s a case. Lemons, 4s to 10s a bushel. Peas, 4s to 11s a sack; potatoes, 6s to 10s a cwt; onions, local, 8s to 9s a sugarbag ■ swedes, 4s to 6s a case; marrows, Is 6d to 2s 6d a ease. Lettuce, 6d to 3s a ease; cabbage, 2s to 6s a ease: cauliflowers, 2s 6d to 5s a case; pumpkins, 5s to 9s 6d "a sack; silver beet, 6d to 2s a ease; carrots, 7s to 11s 3d a ense; parsnips, 7s to 10s a case; beetroot Is 6d to 2s 6d a case. Eggs.—A grade. 2s 2d a dozen ; B grade, 2s; special, 2s 4d.