FRUIT AND PRODUCE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6383, 4 December 1907, Page 3

FRUIT AND PRODUCE.

WELLINGTON QUOTATIONS.

Excellent prices are ruling for new season’s cherries and red currants, which are now commencing to make their appearance on tho local markets. Gooseberries are inclined to weaken as supplies are getting heavier. Strawberries are in excellent request. Apart from the varieties just mentioned, requirements in tho shdpe of apricots, poaches, and plums have to be met out of New South Wales grown, which are due again to-day from Sydney. Reports go to show that prospects in the orchards for all classes of fruit are promising very well. There is an absolute ■absence of apples and oranges, and it is que«stionable whether any more Californian will arrive until just about Christmas time. Island oranges are now out of first hands, and there will be a keen market awaiting what few "Sydneys may •arrive each week. Strawberries Is 6d to Is 9d box for choice,; others 8d to Is 3d, according to condition; gooseberries, large green 4s to ,6s half-case, small 2s 6d to 3s; red currants, choice 5s to 6s half-case, inferior 3s to 4s; cherries 9© to 10s Gd half-caso for good, inferior 6s to 8s; tomatoes, choice 8d to 9d lb, others : 5d to 7d. POTATOES AND ONIONS.

Tho potato market remains in a stognant state, and great difficulty is still being met with in effecting sales. Large quantities still continue to offer, but buyers continue to refrain from operating to any extent. New potatoes, in sympathy with old, are also dull of sale. Advices to hand show that tho disease is prevalent to a very large extent this season, and in some instances growers, rather than run tho risk of their crops being entirely xtnfit for sale, have elected to plough up same and resow with other vegetable®. Old potatoes c£3 to £4 10s per ton for good, others 20s to 30s per ton; new potatoes, choice white 10s to 12s .per cwt, others 7s to 8s; onions, .£7 to XS per ton. OTHER VEGETABLES.

The market does not show any appreciable change on late rates. Cauliflowers, choice 6s to 8s sack; prime 4s to ss, inferior 2s to 3s; cabbages, choice 4s to 5s sack, others Is 6d to 3s sack; parsnips, 5s to 6s sack; spinach, 4s*to 5s case; asparagus, 4d to 7d bundle; lettuce, 4s to 5s case; beetroot, 4s to 5s case; green peas, large 8d to lOd peck, others 5d to 7d; turnips. 4s to 5s sack; rhubarb, 4s to 6s dozen bundles; celery, 2s to 3s dozen; carrot®, 6s to 8s sack. EGGS. Fairly largo quantities continue to offer, and tho market is unchanged at Is Id to Is 2d dozen.