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PUKEKOHE VEGETABLES POTATO MARKET FIRMER. Business i>n Pukekohe potatoes was unusually brisk yesterday, large quantities being railed away to meet the post-holiday demand. The price has hardened Is fid a cwt. since last week, to-day’s values being 10s a cwt. fo.r. Pukekohe. as against 8s (id 'before the holidays. New season’s Pukekohe onions continue to sell at the pre-holiday figure of 11s a cwt.. and there is a fairly firm lone about the market to-day. Locally-grown green peas vary greatly in value, quotations ranging from 8s 1o 12s 9d a sugar bag 1’.0..\ Pukekohe. Cabbages remain at lasi week's prices of 4s 3d to 5s 3d a chapman bag, and Gs a sack. Carrots are hill at Gs 9cl a sugar hag. beetroot, at 4 : (id. and swedes at Bs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 3
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131COMMERCIAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 3
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