FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25797, 19 March 1945, Page 6

FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD

Per Dozen.—Eggs: Pay-out values for week ended March 10, heavy 2s 6d, standard 2s 4d, medium 2s lid, pullets Is BJd, ducks’ 2s 2d; lettuce. 2s to ss; hothouse cucumbers, 3s to 6s per dozen Per Case.—New Zealand lemons, bushels, 18s 3d, 19s; bananas, green, 255; apples, dessert 4s 6d to 10s 9d; cooking, 5s 9d, 7s 6d; pears, 12s 6d, 14s 6d. Per Half Case.—Pears, 7s 3d; Peaches, dessert, 6s to 10s; cooking, 6s, 8s; plums, dessert, 9s, 10s; cooking. 6s, 7s; nectarines, dessert, 12s, 16s; outdoor cucumbers, 5s to 5s 9d Per Bucket.—Raspberries, 13s 6d; cultivated blackberries, to 14s 6d. Per Lb—Section honey, Is 6d; grapes, Is 6d to 2s 9d; peaches, special dessert, 8d; peaches, special dessert, Bja; plums, special dessert, BJd; nectarines, 8d 9d; green peas, good, Bd, lOd; broad beans, 3d; scarlet runners, Bd, 10ja; French and butter beans, lOd; tomatoes, Christchurch firsts, 6d, 8d; seconds, 2d, 4d; Nelsons, 4d, 6d; walnuts, Is 73d; rhubarb, 2Jd; garlic, Bd, 9d; eschallots, 4d, Sack.—Cauliflower, firsts to 10s, seconds, 6s. , Per Cwt.—Spring carrots, 12s 3d; parsnips, 15s 3d; cabbage, to 10s; silver beet. 18s; swedes, 6s 6d; potatoes. King Edwards, to 10s, whites 6s to 9s; pumpkins, to 18s;.onions, 17s 6d; marrows, 9s, 12s. Fowl wheat, 8s; oats, Gartons. 6s; whole maize, 10s per bushel; crushed oats, 14s 6d; X Keys meatmeal, 15s per bag; Oyster grit, 10s 6d per bag; bran, £5 10s; pollard, £6 15s; chaff, b. 0.5., £7 15s; oaten straw, £5; hay, £7 10s. . Poultry, Per Pair.—3s3 hens at 2s 6d to 5s lOd for light breeds and 6s 6d to 9s for heavy breeds; 93 cockerels at 2s 8d to 10s 2d'; 125 pullets at 4s to 17s 6d, and 5 ducks at 6s.

REILLY’S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART,

LTD., Moray place, Dunedin.