WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13929, 10 February 1914, Page 8

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

(Special to "The Colonist."

Wellington, Feb. 9 Messrs Laery and Co. report as follows on tlio Wellington fruit and produce market:— At the sales to-day tho prices ranged as under: Choice" apricots 65 6d to 7s 6d, prime Ss to 6s; jk-aches, choice large dessert 5s 6d to -Is Cd, large~*cooking peaches 3s 6cl to ■1s; tomatoes, coloured 6s 6d to 6s 9d; plums, large Burbanks 3s to v3s 6d. medium 2s 6d to 2s 9d, Ogons (light sales)' Is 6d to Is 9d, iSatsumas 3s to 3s 6d, Diamonds (in better demand) 3s to 3s (id; nectarines, large 3s 3d to 3s J)d,, medium 2s 6d to 2s;' October Purple plums 4s 6d to ss; greengages, 3s to ■h; yellowgages 2s 6d to 3s per half vases ; grapes, lOd; apples, coloured dessert, 6s 6d to 7s 6d, cookers, large, -^s to 5s 6d; choice William pears, Cs (kl to 7s per case; eggs, fresh Is 6d to is 7d, preserved Is 3d per dozen.