WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE REPORT.
(Special to "Tho Colonist.") Tho Now Zealand Fruit and PlO- -' (luce Co,, Ltd,, report.- from Welling- • ton on SaturcJay: .'Business has kept brisk (hiring the week. Potatoes aro ; still i-hing am] high prices are likrly to continue for some time. Dessert apples have .risen in price, tlie supptv j is diminishing. Eggs are easier. 'J'i'e : grain market continues firm. The following are tlie prices ruling: — Apples (cooking) ,3s to ss ; apples (desert) 6s Gd to '9s 6d ; nassion fruit Gs box ; pears (cooking) 4s to 5s 6d ; pears (dessert) 7s to 10s ; grapes 8s to. lOd per lb ; lemonrs (Sydney) 4s to os. 1 Potatoes 6s to 6s 9d cwt ; onions 4s j to 4s Gd cwt ; swedes 2s cwt ; turnips ' 2s Gd to 3s 6d -sack ; carrots 3s to os I sack ; parsnips 4s Gd to Gs sack; beetroot 3s to 4s "6d ; cabbage 3s Od to Gs 6d sack; cauliflower 8s 9d to 13s Gd sack; p?as lls to 13s sack; marrows Is sack; Cape gooseberries 3-} d lb ; beans (l«') 8s to 10s sack; beans (13) 2s to 4s- Gd sack; lettuce -3s to 5s ul case ; .spinach 3s to 3s 6d case. • Eggs (fresh) 2s to 2s Id • eggs ({ireserved) Is '3d; chafF £0 to £5 los ; ducks. 4:i Gd to os pair; bran 9s. par ! sack; v.lieat -Is to 4s 4d bushel; lions 3s to 3s 6d pair ; peanuts 20s Gd sack ; •Grain market continues fiim. 'Tie pollard £0 10s.
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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12807, 31 May 1910, Page 1
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WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE REPORT.
Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12807, 31 May 1910, Page 1