FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14707, 7 June 1920, Page 7

FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD.

. Eeilly's Central produce Mart, rcI port: As usual during Show Week the largo influx of country visitors has created a keener demand for dessert and cooking fruits and produce general- , ly. and a number of orders have been booked with orchardists for ploughs, ' fruit, and forest trees, spraying mater- • ials, and spray pumps. Local green | peas realised 9d per lb. The following ! prices were secured: —Apple, plum, 1 cherry, quince (two-year-old) trees 15s ito 18s per dozen, £5 per hundred; I shrubs Is 6d to 7s 6d each. Roses, to 12s dozen. Gooseberry and currant I trees, 5s to 7s Cd. Rhubarb roots, 15s iper hundred. Violets, 3s per hundred i blooms of special quality. Chrysanthc- ' mums to Is per dozen blooms. Wal- ! nuts, Is Id to Is 4d for choice, inferior 6d to lOd. Soft-shelled almonds, Is 6d. Hazelnuts, Is 6d. Bananas, 15s to 255. ; Lemons. American 50s. Pears. Vicars | 5?. Beurre Diel 6s, Winter Coles 8s to | 10s, Neils 10s to 12s. Capimonts 6s to i Bs, Clairgeaus 6s per case. Apples, Delicious from 17s 6d, Coxes from 9s to 12s. King Davids 7s 6d to 9s, Jonaithans 7s 6d to 12s, Munroes 6s 6d to 7s 9d. Cleopatras 9s to 10s 6d, Lord Wolselevs 7& 6d,- Alfristons 6s 6d, Five Crowns 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Scarlet Nonpariels 7s to 10s 3d p*r case. Tomatoes—Locals. Is 6d to is 9-id. Grapes—Locals. 2s 3d to 3s. Grepn peas. 9d per lb. Cauliflowers, to 9s tfd. Cabbages, to 3s dozen vegetable marrows, IGs 6d. Pumpkins. 12s <=ack Pie melons. 17s 6d cwt. Potatoes 8s to 9s fid ner cwt. Bacon pigs—i 150-i7olb, 10? d: 100-1301b. -10 id : heavy weights. 7*d to lOd Eggs-Guaran-teed- 3s! preserved', 2s Cd dozen. Binter— Prime separator, Is 6d per lb. Honev —Prime sections, 108 to 12s; bulk'toSJd: 101b tins, Bs. Beeswa* —Wanted; 2s 6d per lb. Oats, 5s Od Cape barley. Bs. Prussian blue peas, 15s bushel. Tallow, 40s to 535. Rabbitskm, from 13d to 71 Ad. Poultry—Hens realised from 4s 6d "to 7s: cockerels from 2s 2d to lis 6d; pullets from lis to 21s 6d; i ducks- from 4s to. Ss (all at per pair): [ turkeys realised from Is 2d to Is 6d I PCr lb ' E. OSWALD REILLY, ' i Managing Director, 1 543 Moray Place, Dunedin.