PUKEKOHE PRODUCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 5

PUKEKOHE PRODUCE

NEW POTATOES SOUGHT OTHER VEGETABLES DEAR [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Tuesday Trade in Pukekohe new potatoes is lively. The weather is still good and most of the crops look well. Digging continues to increase, but the demand grows greater at rather a faster pace, if anything. The volume of orders indicates that the limited quantity of southern and American potatoes now remaining is causing attention to be turned to Pukekohe as a source of supply for numerous districts throughout the Dominion.

Last week's price of 34s per cwt., f.o.r. Pukekohe, still rides, and the market appears to be very firm at this figure. Indications are that the Pukekohe output will be readily absorbed until Christmas.

Cauliflowers available here have become scarcer since the beginning of last week, and, as the demand is still heavy, prices have jumped in the period from 7s 2d to lis 6d a Chapman bag and from 10s 6d to 17s 3d a sack.

Cabbages continue to sell freely at last week's rates, namely, os a Chapman bag and 7s 2d a sack for the Drumhead variety and 6s a Chapman bag and Ss 9d a sack,for the spring Enfield variety. iioot vegetables have become very dear, owing to a temporary shortage of supplies. Carrots arc quoted to-day at 18s 6d a sugar bag and parsnips at 13s. These quotations, however, are largely nominal, as very little business is being done at such high rates. Swede turnips are selling at 5s 6d a sugar bag, which is Is advance oil the rate ruling at the beginning of last week.

Plant values are practically unaltered. Although they are becoming scarce, tomato plants still sell at 5s per tray of 50. Onion plants continue to bring 8s 6d a thousand in bundles of 100, cabbage plants 10s 6d a thousand in bundles'of 25, and cauliflower plants lis 6d a thousand in bundles of 25..