WELLINGTON FRUIT MARKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 41, 25 March 1914, Page 11

WELLINGTON FRUIT MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S PSKJES. (Sun Special.) WELLINGTON, March 24. Messrs Townsend .and Paul, Wellington, report that present values on the Wellington fruit market are as follow: —Plums, choice 3/- to 4/-, medium 2/to 2/6 per half case. Pears, extra choice, Marie Louise 7/- to 8/-, Burre de Capiamont 6/- to 7/6, Burre Bosc 6/to 6/6, Louise Bonne 6/6 to 7/6, Burre Clairgeau, medium size,' 6/-, Josephine 6/6 to 7/6, Vicars 4/- to 5/- per bushel case; medium quality at relative rates. Passion fruit, A/- to 4/6. Apples, extra choice Coxes 9/- to 10/-, good 7/to ,U/-> Jonathans, extra .5/6 to 6/-, medium quality at relative rates; cookers, large green choice 5/-, medium to good 4/- to 4/6 per bushel case. Grapes, extra choice 8d to 10d per lb, good 7d to 7sd per lb. Potatoes, choice white varieties. 4/- to 5/- per cwt. Onions, choice 6/- to 6/6 per cwt., pickling onions 7/-4 D &/- .per cwt. Oabbages 3/- to 4/6; parsnips 4/- to 5/-; carrots if- to 4/-; pumpkins 5/6 to 6/6; piemelons, choice 7/- to 7/6 per sack. Fresh eggs 1/5 t© .1/6 per dozen. Poultry, fowls 2/9 i,o 3/6, docks 4/6 to ,5/- per pair. Turkeys, lOd to lid per lb dead weight.