WELLINGTON MARKETS
Market Gardeners Ltd. report as follows on values of fruit and produce sold at their sales during the past week. Values of both fruit and vegetables are on the upward, a very satisfactory conditipn pf things from the growers’ standpoint:— Fruit: Apples, dessert, 7s 6d to 11s 9d; apples cookers, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; pears, W.8.C., 7s to- 9s 6d; grapes, Is 3d to Is 71d per lb; tc-matoes Hutt, 4id to 9d per lb; peaches, Otago-, 3s 6d to 6s 6d; peaches Hastings 7s 6d to 11s 9d ; apricots 3s 6d to 7s lid ; nectarines 6s to 9s 4d ; oranges Californian 30s; lemons 65s Californian. Vegetables: Potatoes £lO to- £l7 10s; onions 5s 6d bag; peas 6s 6<l to 17s 6d sack; pumpkins 10s to 11s 6d sack ; beans 6s 6cl to 17s 6d bag; lettuce, 2s 6s to 9s 7d case; cauliflower 3s 6d to 7s case • carrots 3d to 7d bunch ; parsnips 5d to 7d bunch; cabbage Is to 3s a case; beetroot 2d to sd; cucumbers 4s 6d to 7? dozen.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 February 1928, Page 11
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178WELLINGTON MARKETS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 February 1928, Page 11
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