WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14337, 13 February 1917, Page 3

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

'Special to "The-Colonist.")

WoUington, Feb. 1.2. Laery.and Co., Ltd., report on tho .Wellington -fruit and produce market as follows:—

Dessert apples are in good, demand. "Cooking appies, and all other varieties ; of fruit, have good inquiry. To-day's values rale as follows:— Apples: Choice Cox's Orange Pippin, Quarendon, and Gravenstcii.i 9s (xl to 11s 6d, cooking 5s 6d. ...- Raspberries 6s 6d to 7s 6d per • bucket. ■ iviirs: Wiliir.mr.' Boir Chretien 4s to 4s 6d per halfrcase, cooking 5s to 5s b'd per case. Plums: Angelina os to 6s, Burbank, Satsuma, and Blue Diamond 4s to 4s 6d, Pond's Seedling 3s to 3s 6d. Greengages 7 S 6d to 8s 6d (very • scarce). ■ < . ! Peaches: Extra choice 6a 6d to 7s 6d,~ prime 4s 6d to 5s 6d. Apricots: Largo 7s 6d to 8s 6d. , jNectariues 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Tomatoes: Coloured 3s, green 2s, all medium and sniall at relative rates. \ Grapes 9d to lOd per lb. • \ Poultry: Good demand for all lines. Fiesh eggs Is 8d to Is 9d per dozen Butter C Prime Is 3d per lb, good Is 2d. Consignments of all the above lines -jir.e strongly recommended, the market at the present moment beings only moderately supplied. j