WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15000, 22 February 1919, Page 2

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

(Special to "The Colonist.")

Wellington, Feb. 21. Messrs Burbidgo and Son report as follows on the Wellington fruit and produce market:—

Owing to increased supplies, values for tomatoes, plums and cooking peaches have fallen. W.B.C. pears, dessert apples, nectarines and raspberries are in good demand. Eggs have again advanced in;price. Values: Tomatoes: Coloured 4s 3d to 6s, ripe! 5s to 6s 6d. •;■ > ■! Plums: Green and yellow 2s 6d to I 3s 6d, black 3s 6d to ss, October Purple 4s to os 6d. Peaches: Small" 2s to 3s, large 4s to 6s. ■■■••■-" '"■ \ . . '. ! Nectarines 5s to 6s per half-case. j Pears: W.B.C. 6s to 8s 6d. .: Apples: Cooking, .large;4s'to ss, Cox's Orange Pippin 7s to 8s Gd^,Worcester Pearmain 7s. 6d to 9s, bushel cases. Raspberries 8s to I'Os per bucket. Eggs 2s 3d to 2s 4dper dozen. Butter Is 3d to Is 4d per lb. Messrs Griffiths and Co. 4 Ltd. (in-1 corporating Braiid and Wallace), report as follows on the Wellington fruit and produce market:— * During the past few days supplies of tomatoes have considerably increased, ■md values have been reduced. Choice ripe to-day 5s to 6s 6d, colouring 5s to 6s, green 4s to ss. . Apples: Choice Cox's Orange Pippin 8-s 6d to 9s 6d, Quarendon choice 6s 6d to 7s 6d, Gravenstein 7s to 8s per bushel, best cooking 4s 6d to 5s 6d, others 4s to 4s 6d. Grapes: Extra -choice Is to Is 3d per lb. Raspberries 8s to 9s "per bucket. \ Plums: Choice large "Burbank 5s .(3d to 6s 6d. medium 3s 6d to 4s "6d, Diamond *»s 6d to 6s 6d, Octooer Purple 5s to 5s Genuine greengages 9s to 10s. Nectarines: Extra choice 5s 6d to Os others 4s 6d to ss. Peaches: Extra choice 4s to ss, others 3* 6d to 4s, inferior 'Js 6d to 3s per hulf•case. Apricots: Teviot choice, 7s 6d to Bs, others 6s to 7s per half-case. j Pears : W.B.C. approaching ripe 8s <ul to 10?, others 6s to 7s, Fertility 6s to 7s per bushel. Cape gooseberries are in keen demand. Blackberries 6s to 7s per bucket. Vegetables are in fair supply.