WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13053, 13 March 1911, Page 1

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Tho New Zealand Fniit and Produce Company, Limited., report a good demand for all kinds of fruit with the exception of green cooking peaches, which arc rather low. Potatoec are rather weak in demand. Onions are selling freely as tho price is very low. Good pickling onions are in demand. Vegetables keqp in good request, especially cauliflower and good green peas. The. following are this week's prices: Apples, Cox's Oiango 7s to 8s 9d per case, others 6s to 79 6d, cooking 4s 6d to 5s 3d; pours, W.B.C. 9s to 10s, Feurro Dial 7s to Bs, M. Louise 5s to 6s per half case, Autumn Nellis -5s to 6s, Winter Nellis 3s to 6s; peaches, cooking 2s Cd to 3s, dessert 4s 9d to 6s 6d; plums, yellow 2s 6d to 3s 9d, red 3s 6d to 3s 9d; nectarines, ()s to 6s lOd; orangep, Island 7s to 10s ; lerncns, Mnssina 1,5s per half caso; Cape gooseberries, 4Jd to sJ<l per lb; bananas, 5s to 7s 6 per case, Potatoes, 4s 6d to 5s 9d per cwt; onions, 4s 6d to ss; cabbage, 3s 9d to 5s per sack; carrots, 3s 6d to os ; cauliflower, 9s to 11s; turnips, 3s to 4s 6d; peas (12 pecks), 7s to 13s; beany, 4,s to ss; lettuce, 2s 6d to 4s 6d p«r case; cucumbers, 3s 6d to ss; tomatoes, Is 8d to 2s 4d half case; persimmons, 6s to 6s 6d: rhubarb, 2s dozen; broad boans, l|d per lb; celery, Is 6d to 2s 6d per dozen; walnuts, 6d to 7d per lb.

• Chaff, £5 to £5 15s per ton; oats (A grade Gartens), 2s 7d to 2s 8d per bushei; bran, £4 10s per ton; straw, 2s to 2s 3d per bale; pollard, £Q per