FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25814, 9 April 1945, Page 2

FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD

Per Bozen.—Eggs: Pay-out values for week ended March 31—Heavy 2s 7d, standard 2s sd, medium 2» 2d, pullets' is BJd, ducks’ 3s 4d, Lettuce, 2s to ss. Hothouse cucumbers, 3s to 6s. Per Case.—New Zealand lemons: Bushels. 18s 3d, 19s. Bananas: Green, 245. Apples: Dessert, 5s Gd to 8s 6d; cooking. 4s, 7s. Pears, IQs 3d, 12s 3d. Per Half-case. —Pears, Gs 2d. Peaches: Dessert, 10s, Plums: Dessert, 10s. Nectarines: Dessert, 16s. Passions, 16s, 18s. Outdoor cucumbers, 6s. Per Pottle.—Cultivated blackberries, Is 6d, Is 9d. Per Pound.—Section honey, Is 6d. Grapes, 2s 2d, 3s Bd. Peaches: Special dessert, BJd. Plums: Special dessert, aid. Nectarines, 10d, Green peas; Good, 4d, Bd. Broad beans, 3d. Scarlet runners, Sd, lid. French and butter beans, 9d, ltd. Tomatoes: Christchurch firsts, Gd. 8d; seconds, 2d, 4U. Walnuts, Is ojei. Rhubarb, Bid. Garlic, 9d. Eschullots, 4d, sd.

Per Sack Cauliflower: Firsts, to .12s Gd: seconds, Bs. Per Hundredweight.—Spring carrots, JOs 3d. Parsnips, 15s 3d. Cabbage, to 12s. Silver beet, lap. Swedes, 6s Gd. Potatoes: King Edwards, to 10s: whites, 6s to 9s. Pumpkins, to 18s. Onions, 16s, ]7s. Marrows, 9?. 10s. Fowl wheat, Bs, Oats: Garfons, ss. Whole maize, 10s per bushel. Crushed oats, 14? Gd. 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: 14 hens at 5s to Ss 2d, 12 cockerels at 8s Gd to 11s, and 24 ducks at 0s Gd to 9s 6d. . REILLY'S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART, LTD., Moray place, Dunedin.