FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD
Per Dozen.—Eggs: Pay-out values for week ended March 17—Heavy 2s 6d, standard 2s 4d, medium 2s IJd, pullets’ Is Bid. ducks 2s 2d. Lettuce, 2s to ss. Hothouse: Cucumbers. 3s to 6s 6d per dozen. Per Case.—Mew Zealand lemons: Bushels, 18s 3d, 19s. Bananas: Green, 245. Apples: Dessert, 5s 6d to 9s 9d; cooking, 4s, 7s. Pears, 12s 6d, 14s 6d. Per Half-case. —Pears, 7s 3d. Peaches: Dessert, 10s. Plums: Dessert, 10s. Nectarines: Dessert, 16s. Outdoor cucumbers, 5s 9d. Per Bucket.—Cultivated blackberries, to 14s 6d. Per Pound. —Secifon honey. Is 6d. Grapes, 2s, 3s. Peaches: Special dessert, Bid. Plums: Special dessert, BJd. Nectarines, 9d. Green peas: Good, lOd, Is. Broad beans, 3d. Scarlet runners, Bd, lOd. French and butter beans, 9d, lOd. Tomatoes: Christchurch firsts, Gd, 8d; seconds, 2d, 4d; Nelsons, 4d, sd. Walnuts, Is 72d. Rhubarb, 2d. Garlic, 9d. Eschallots, sd.
Per Sack.—Cauliflower: Firsts, to 10s; seconds, 6s.
Per Hundredweight.—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 Gd. Marrows, 9s. Fowl wheat, Bs. 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: 8.0.5., £7 15s. Oaten straw, £5. Hay, £7 10s. Poultry.—Per pair: 475 hens at 2s to 8s for light breeds and 6s 6d to 16s for heavy breeds, 146 cockerels at 4s to 11s, 128 ducks at 5s to 12s 6d, 11 goslings at 19s to 235, 10 geese at-10s, 229 pullets at 5s to 11s, 63 chickens at 2s to 3s Gd, and 3 bantams at 2s 6d. REILLY’S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART, LTD.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25803, 26 March 1945, Page 2
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