WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13646, 11 February 1913, Page 8

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

(Special to "The Cokm!st.">

Wellington, Feb. 10. Messrs. Laery and Co. report as follows on the NVeliingtpn fruit and produce market: Much heavier supplies have arrived. The market has declined temporarily. Prices are quoted as under: Tomatoos, choice fe to 7b, green 3s to 4s ; peaches, choice 3s 3d to 4s, small ?s to 2s 3dj greengages. 65.6d,t0 7s 6d; plums, choice dessert 3s 6d to 4s 6d, diamonds 4s to 4s 6d, Satsumas 3s to As; nect-ariiiirs, large, 3s 3d to 3s 9d in lialf cases: apples, Cox's Orange 8s .6d to Ds 6d, Grawnstains 6s .to 7s, Red Quarreiidons 4s to 7«-t>d, cooking, ap- . jples, choioo 4s 6d to 5s in full cases; .jpeare, dessert os 6d to 6s in f ull-casos, «tewing 4s 6cl to on j' grapas,' bd to Vkl; cauliflowers. 7s to 8k ; -cabbages 3s 6d to -is; .carrots 4s to Ss; parsnips 5s to 6s; turnips 3s Gd to 4s; pumpkins 9s to 10« per sack: cj4ss, frosli (the market is weak) Is 6d jkt dozen.