AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25364, 23 October 1943, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN ORANGES

SHIPMENT REACHES DUNEDIN NEW ZEALAND LEMONS PLENTIFUL A shipment of Australian Valencia oranges reached the market at the weekend. There were approximately 2000 cases for the local market, and supplies had to be strictly rationed to retailers. New Zealand lemons are in heavy supplv and are reaching the market in very poor condition. Most of them have to be repacked before sale. Bananas are sold out of the marts, and there is no advice as to when the next shipment will come to hand. Supplies of hothouse tomatoes from Canterbury and Blenheim are increasing, and the market has an easier tendency. Hothouse cucumbers are now coming forward, with very high prices ruling. Asparagus is offering in small lots only. Apples are stfil being rationed to retailers, the bulk of the supplies being Sturmers and Delicious Pears are finished for the season. Reports from Central Otago Indicate that the stone fruit season is from three to four weeks later than was the case last year. There has, however, been an absence of heavy frosts, and the crons are reported to be looking particularly well, with the exception of some varieties of apricots, which have been affected in the blossom stage by the continuous damp weather ... Cauliflowers are in .short suoply. with very high prices ruling. Spring cabbage, carrots, and parsnips find a ready sale at ceiling prices. Lettuce were in short supply at the week-end, aj} d market was firmer. Rhubarb is m good supply, and spinach, radish and spring onions have a ready sale Wholesale prices are as follows: Apples: All varieties, fancy. 13s 6d; com--ITI Australian 25s Od to 37s per bushel case, according to count. Lemons: New Zealand. 11s 6d to 20s Gel Bananas: Unobtainable. Hothouse cucumbers, los to 3Us pu d °Hothouse tomatoes: 3s to 4s 3d per lb Rhubarb: 3d to 4d per lb Lettuce, choice, 4s to 5s 6d per dozen; others, 2s to 3s per dozen Carrots. 24s per cwt. Parsnips. 26s oer cwt Cabbage to 27s per cwt. Swedes, 9s per cwt. Silver beet. 30s per ewt. Spinach, 4s to 5s per dozen Spring onions, Is fid to 2s per bunch Leeks/ 6d per bunch. Asparagus. Is fid to Is lOd per bunch Cauliflower 16s to ner sack. Onions. 25s per cental vi Potatoes f a.q. to 12s Cd per cwt.: undergrade. 7s to 10s ner cwt.