FRUIT AND PRODUCE WORLD.
Reilly’s report: Large supplies of green peas arriving, prices distinctly lower. Cabbage and cauliflower finding a good demand. Cherries and tomatoes realising fair values. Choice strawberries command high prices. Potatoes, prime porker and bacon pigs, young cockerels, geese and goslings wanted. Eggs wanted; we sold all our consignments Is 3d to Is 6d. American onions in keen demand. American navel oranges, December 17, booking freely at 39s per case. We sold:—Ranuncula, 4s, 6s. . Anemone, 4s, 6s. Section honey: Choice 9s, medium 7s. Cabbage, to 3s 6d. Cauliflower 7s 6d, Bs. Asparagus: Christchurch, ss, Bs. Outram 10s 6d, 14s 6d. Lettuce: Extra choice to 3s 6d, others to 2s 6d. Eggs Is 2d, Is 5d per dozen. Christchurch tomatoes Is 6d, Is 8d; seconds Bd, Is 2d; local Is lid, 2s 2d. Green peas 3d, 4d. Broad beans 3d, sd. Green gooseberries 2Jd, 4d. Rhubarb 3d, 3Jd. Cherries Is, Is Bd. Strawberries Is 9d, 2s 6d. Butter: Pats, bulk Is 3d. Bacon: Choice Is; odd lots 9d, lOd. New potatoes: Locals 4d to sd; Pukekohes 2Ad, 31d. Preserved ginger Is. Peanuts 5d.~ Brazils lOd. Cheese: Medium 9ld, 10 Jd. Tea: Orange Pekoe 2s 6d. Beeswax Is Bd. Horsehair Is 9d. Mutton birds 9d. Bacon pigs: Prime 7d, 7Ad; porkers 7Jd; heavyweigths sd; choppers 3d, 4d. ~ Honey: Bulk 3|d, 43d; 101 b tins 4s 6d, ss: 11b pats 3s 6d; pottles, lib 7s; 21b 12s. Potatoes: Stirling-Outrams 14s. Carrots 9s. Parsnips ss. Onions: Australians 20s; Californians 355. Oyster grit 8s 6d. Fat 18s, 27s 6d cwt. Pears: Dumps 7s 6d, 9s 6d. Apples: Canadians 18s, 20s; Delicious choice 12s, 14s; medium 7s; Stunners 6s, 11s; Tasman 7s, Us. Bananas: Ripe 30s. Lemons: Missions 47s 6d. Valencias: Dumps 18s, 22s 6d. Californian grapes 32s 6d. Black leaf “40 ” 101 b tins 545; 21b 15s 6d; Alb 5s 3d. Raspberry buckets 42s per dozen. Strawberry punnets 655; crates 6s. Fowl wheat 6s 6d. Palmers chick food. 101 b 2s 9d; 501 b Us 6d; 1001 b 21s. Lucerne meal 14s per 1001 b. Bran £7 10s. Pollard £9. Oatsheal chaff £5 5s per ton. Poultry, 216 hens at 3s 8d to 7s 4d; 19 cockerels 4s, 8s 6d; 152 chickens 6d, 3s; and 12 ducks 7s Bd, 9s 6d, all at per pair. REILLY’S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART, LTD., DUNEDIN.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 37
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