WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13997, 29 January 1916, Page 3

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

I (Special to "Tho Colonist.") Wellington, Jan. 28. Bray. y ßros 'Wellington), Ltd., res port as follows on the Wellington fruit \ and produce market:— - :: i Potatoes, peaches, apricots,"- green- j gages, dessert, and cooking r apples, jind "Williams' Eon Chretien poars" are i in good demand. Prices are low forl plums, tomatoes, and nectarine's. Peaches: Dessert 8s to ss, cook in* 2s (3d to 3s 6d. Apricots 4s. Plums: Blue Diamond 2s 4d, Bur-i bank 2s 3d Nectarines 2s M to 3s. Greengages Ss to 3s 6d. Tonatoes 2s 9d to 3s 6d. Pears: Williams' Bon Chretien 2s (3d to 4s 6d. Apples: Dessert 5s to 7s 6d, cooking 4s 6d, Rasplerrioc. 4.s 9d to 6s per bucket. , Eggs Ls 7d per dozen. ■ -Potatoes: White Ss, red 6s. ■Onions 6s pot- cwt. Fowls 5s (id \X'v pair, ducks 6s 6tt. Greer. peas Is per peck. Thompson Bros., Ltd.. report as fol<ows on the Wellington fruit and proluce market:— Extreir,ely hot and muggy weather has beer, experienced during the past 1 week, and this has had a detrimental effect on th>> keeping qualities of frutit. The I'-fca.ther "'R now cooler, and a gen- ( eral improvement in values has taken place for most varieties of stone fruit. Tomatoes continue, in lieafry' supply, 'j with lower prices ruling. Apples, loth cooking and dessert, are wanted, to-day's "values being as follows -—Large green cookers to 6s, others is to ss, Grayeustein 8s 6d to 10s, Quarrenden 6s 6d to 7s 6d, other dessert 5s dd to 6s 6d. Peat",: Deswvi. are in better request. Choice Hawke's Bay in half-cases today realised to ss. ilotxieka per bushel 8s to 8s 6d. Fertility 3s to 3s 6d per half-case, Christchurcb Windsor, and Duchess 5s 3d to 6s 6d per bushel. Peaches. Hawke's Bay dessert 4s 6d to 5s 6d for best, others 3s 6d to 4s, cookers 2s &<3 to 3s 3d, Motueka dessert 3s 6rl tic ss, cooking 2s 6d to 3s. Greengages 3s 9d to 4s 6d. Plums: follow 2s 6d to 3s, Pond's Seedling 4s 6d, Burbank 4s 6d to 5s Satsuma 2s 9d to 3s 3d, Wixon 2s 6d to 3s 2c!, Bluo Diamond 3s to 3s Bd. Apricots 4s ftl. Supplies decreasing. Te.viot-grown Gs to 7s per half-case, over-ripe- 3s 6d to 4s, Motueka-grown 5s to 5s fid, snj-aJJ 3s 9d to 4s 6d. Nectarines 3s 9d +o 4s ,3d. Passion i'nn'b 6s to Bs. Strawberries Is 6d to Is 9d -par punnet.1' ' t -t) Raspberries 5s 6d to Cs 6d per bucket. Tomafeos: Choice 4s to 4 s 9d, others 3s 3d to 3s 9<l Cape ■gobset>erries 5s 6d to 6s per half-case. Grapes lOd to Is per lb. . .-Ciicunibers -3-s to ( 4s per dozen. '. Frencsj beans 2d to 2jd per4b. '■'-Potatoes'£7- to £7 ss. Onions £C to £6 10s. ■•;-Poultry: Hoiks 3s 6d to 4s ,6d per pair, cockerels 4s 6d to ss, ducks 7s to' 7s'6d. turkeys, gobblers Is, hens 8d to lOd per lb, live-weight. : Eggs Is 5d iio Is 6d per dozen. Butter is wanted. / Messrs Braid and 'Wallace,' New Market' Buildings, report as follows on the Wellington fruit and produce market:— . _ . . ■■&* Teviot apricots are now coming forward in heavy quantities, some in excellent condition, others over-ripe. Sound fruit is receiving excellent attention at 5s to 6s per half-case. , Nearly all lines are in fairly heavy supply. W 7ith hot weather prevailing recently, 'condition has been very unsatisfactory. Choice firm r*aches- are receiving good attention at. Os to 6s. per ball-case, others 3s;6d to 4.5.6 d. Raspberries are selling readily at 6s to 7s per bnckeL. Plums•*. 'iCIK-ico, lai-go Wurbank and October Puit>U» 4s 6d to 5s 6d, others 2s 6d to 3s 6d, Blue Diamond 2s 6d to 3s 6d, according to sample, prunes 2s to 3s.' Orleans Is 6d to 2s, all at'per half-case. ' Apricots: Motuioka and Hawke's Bay 3s Gd to 4» 6d. Nectarines: Choice largo 4s 6d to.ss, smaller 2s(6il to 3s 6d per-half-case. Greengages • f.arge 5s to 5s 6d, others 3s 9d to; is 3d p?r half-case.

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