FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 4

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

WELLINGTON PRICES. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week arc quoted as follow : Apples.—Cox’s, 5s to 13s a bushel; Delicious, 4s to 8s; cooking, 3s <0 7s 6d ; Jonathans, 4s to 7s. Bears, L.8.J., 9s to 16s three-quarter case; cooking, 3s to ss: Winter Coles, 4s to 8s 6d. Grapes, hothouse, 8d Io la 4(1 a. lb. Passion fruit. 5s to 5s 6d half-rase. Capo gooseberries, 6s half-rase. Peaches, 3s to 7s 6d. Nectarines, 4s 6cl to 8s bd. Apricots, 4s to 7s. Quinces, 6s to 7s fed bushel case. Tomatoes, local outside, 5s to 6s fed a case; round. 6s Io 8s fed. Beans, fes <0 15s a case. Cucumbers, outside, 8s to 14s a. rase. Lemons, choice, lfes to 20s a bushel: others, 9s to 14s. Peas, 11s to 18s a sack. Potatoes, 10s to 13s a cwt. Onions, local, 8s to 9s 6d a sugar bag. Swedes. 2s 6d to 5s a case. Marrows, 2s to 4s fed a case. Lettuce. 6d to 2s a case. Cabbage, 3s 6cl to 6s 3d a case. Cauliflowers. 7s io 11s a sack. Pumpkins, 6s to 10s a sack. Silver beet, Is 6d to 3s 6d a case. Carrots, 6s to*9s a case. Spinach, 3s to 6s a banana case. Parsnips, 7s to 11s a case. Beetroot, Is 3d to 5s 3d a case. Eggs, special. Is lid dozen; A grade, Is lOd ; B grade, Is Bd.