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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 113, 25 February 1950, Page 7

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FRUIT AND PRODUCE

ASHBURTON MARKET Current prices for fruit and produce in Ashburton are: Lemons—New Zealand (fancy), lid lb. Cabbages—lOd to 1/3 each. Lettuces—Gd to Bd. Rhubarb—lOd a bunch. Potatoes—New 4d lb, Garlic—2s lb. Carrots—Spring, 5d a lb. Silver Beet—sd lb. Onions—Table 4d lb, pickling 4d lb. New, Gd lb. Marrows—9d, Is 3d, Is Gd each. Beans—9d lb. Beetroot— Gd bunch. Grape Fruit—N.Z. Is 2d lb. Apples—Gd, 7ld, Bld lb; new season’s 9d lb. Tomatoes—ls to 2s lb. Peaches—S.S. dessert, Is Gd to 2s lb; stewing, 2s Gd lb. Plums—ls 3d lb. Apricots—Dessert up to 2s lb; stewing Is. Gd lb. Pears—Bon Chretian, lOd lb. Nectarines—Dessert, 2s lb; stewing, Is Gd lb. FISH PRICES Prices of fish /(all per lb. and with the charges for filleted in parentheses) are: Ling Is. Id. (Is. Bd.), gurnet Is. 4d. (Is. Bd.), terakihi Is. sd. (Is. 10d.),blue cod Is. 4d. (Is. 6d.), red cod Is. Id. (Is. 4d.),flounder Is. 3d. (2s. 6d,),501e Is,3d. (2s. Gd.), ling Is. 10d.,' barracouta Is. sd. lb, crayfish Is. lb, groper Is. Bd. 2s. 2d.), whitebait 7s. lb, salmon 3s. lb, oysters Bd. dozen in shell, lOd. dozen own containers, Is. dozen carton, Is. 3d dozen cooked. STOCKS AND SHARES

The following transactions were recorded on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday: Sales on ’Change—N.Z. Breweries, 49s (2); G. .7. Coles, 24s . (2); Macduffs, 12s 2d; N.Z. Drug, £5 13s Gd. Sales reported: Stock, 1961-G4, 3 per cent., £100; Bank of Australasia, £9 16s Gd; Ballins Brewery (rights), Is, lid; N.Z. Breweries, 49s 3d; Christchurch Gas, 255; Dalgety and Co., 10s; Goldsbrough Mort, 38s; National Mortgage (A), 8s 3d; Kaiapoi Woollen, 28s 3d; Fletcher Holdings, 335; N.Z. Drug, £5 13s 6d; Peters Ice, 265.