FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD
Per Dozen.—Eggs: Pay-out values for week ended May 6—Heavy 3s 7id, standard 3s 5Jd, medium 3s 3£d, pullets’ 2s ducks’ 3s sid, preserved 2s lOd. Lettuce: Choice, 2s, 3s. Chrysanthemums, 4s, 8s per dozen. Per Case.—Apples: Dessert, 11s 6d, 12s 9d; cookers, 9s 6d, 12s 9a Quinces, Bs, 10s. Lemons: Australian, 245, land. 245, 255. Oranges: Australian, 245, 255; Jamaican, 39s 6d, 42s 6d. Pears: Winter Cole and Winter Nelis dessert, 20s. Bananas, 31s. Australian pineapples, 37s Gd. Per Half-case.—Passion fruit: Choice, 12s, 14s. Peaches, Bs, 10s. Quinces, 4s, 4s 6d. Per Pound.—Cape gooseberries. Is. Tree tomatoes, lOd Is Id. Grapes, 3s, 3s 6d; Gros Colmars, 5s 6d. Chinese gooseberries. Is 3d to Is 6d. Green peas: Choice, 9d. IOJd. Sprouts, 9d, lOd. Tomatoes: Local, 2s 6cl to 2s 7d; Christchurch —choice Is, Is 2d, cooking 4d, sd. Rhubarb, 4d. Marrows, 3d. Pumpkins. 3d. Garlic, Is. Shallots, 2d. Jam melons, 2d, 3s. Mushrooms, 6d. Kumeras, sd. Per Bag—Cauliflower, 16s, 225; seconds, 12s, 14s Cabbage, 7s, 12s Potatoes, 12s, 14s. Wheat, 9s 3d. Oats: Cartons, 5s 9d, 6s. Palmer's chick food, 30s. X Keys meatmeal, 16s 6d. Oyster grit, 12s per bag. Poultry mash, £ls per ton, bags extra. Poultry.—Per pair: 426 hens at 2s to 14s 6d, 49 cockerels at 5s to 11s. 8 ducks at 7s to 8s 6d, 18 geese at 8s 6d to 10s 6d, and 100 pullets at 8s to 245. REILLY’S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART, LTD., Moray place, Dunedin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27081, 16 May 1949, Page 7
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