DUNEDIN FRUIT REPORT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12492, 19 March 1909, Page 3

DUNEDIN FRUIT REPORT.

(Special to "The Colonist.")

Dunedin, March 18. Messrs A. Moritzson and Co. report as follows:—

■ Plums— Jam sorts Id to l^d; desserts 2d to 3d. Better demand:

Passion fruit-^-Choice wanted. Grapes — Local 7d to 8d ; choice Adelaide 4cVto sd. • ■ .

Pears —^Dessert sorts 5s to 7s per case ; cookers, 4s to ss. Apples— North Island 2s to 2s 6d per box; local cookers, ljd; choice dessert bushel cases, 6s to 7s 6d. Tomatoes— Market glutted. Nelsons 2s to. 3s per. case ; Auckland; 181 b "boxes. 2s to 3s; local dessert, up to 3§d per 1b; Christchurch "(hot-nouse), lid to 2d, outside grp,wn, Id to ljd. Peaches — Jam sorts, l|d to 2d ; dessert, up to 4d per lb. Nectarines— Nelson, 5s to 6s per case ; Roxburgh, Id to ljd per lb. Apricots — Jam fruit, 2d to 2^d ; .choice, up to 4d per lb, almost finished. ■ Potatoes— Local, 3s 9d "per cwt; Oamaru, 3s 6d per cwt. ; Green peas, ljd to ljd per lb, nearly done. _ : ' Cuciimbers — Local'ds to 6s per doz., .according to size; Auckland in boxes. 3s to 5s per box for green. -