WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 8

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

(Special to "Tho Colonist.")

Wellington, June 10. Laery and Co.. Ltd., report as follows on the Wellington fruit and produce market :•—

Choice dessert and cooking apples and pears arc in excellent demand, as our market at present is very poorly supplied. We quote. ::* follows:— Apples: Choice Cox's Orange Pippin Ss 6d to 9s 3d, Jonathan 7s (kl to 8s ik\ Doui-diortv and Delicious 7s 3d to Ss'6d, Stunner choice-coloured 7s to «s Five C'ro-.vu, Mmivoc's Favourite, and Cleopatra :">s CM to Gs 3d, Epps's Seedling 'hrixe -Is Gd to ss, mo ilium -at relative rates; Pears: Winter Nelis and Winter Cole 12s to I.;S, Josephine l()s to 11s, Yiear or Winkfiekl 4s Cd to As Oil.. Townsond and Paul, Ltd., report as follows on the 'Wellington fruit and produce market: — There is a strong demand for choice .lonnd apples and pears. Pears: Choice Arm Winter Nelis ami Winter Coir- ?).s to 12s, Josephine- 9s to 12s, Glou Morceau Ss to 10s, L'lneon]iue 8s to 10s 6d, Vicar of Winldield 4s •;.;> 5s per bushd ease, medium samplessis per qualiv.v. Apples: Choice-, Jonathan- 7s to 9s, 'Dougherty 8s xo 9s 6d, Stunner 7s to Ss Delicious 6s to 7s,6'd, "Golden Russet 7s to Ss 6d, other Russets 5s Gd to •iis (3d, Adams' Poarmain 5s to Gs. Home Be -nut v 5s Gel to 6s 6d, Hoover 4 s to ss, 'Rhymer 4s to 4s 9d, Mimroe-'s "Favourite'os 8d to 6s, Cleopatra-■ 5s to Gs, Lord Wolseley os 6d to 6s, Epps's ■Seedling 4s 6d to' os. London Pippin 5s to os" Gd, medium .samples as per qnaiity '