AT THE MARTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 203, 28 August 1942, Page 5

AT THE MARTS

HEAVY SUPPLIES OF PRODUCE

Very heavy supplies of cabbages, cauliflowers, swedes, carrots, celery and turnips were offered at the city markets to-day. Kumaras, pumpkins and parsnips were mostly selling at fixed rates, with a few poorer quality lower. Lettuce was in good supply. A few hothouse beans met keen competition. A good demand existed for hothouse tomatoes, while there was still good inquiry for tomatoes. A heavy fall in values ot New Zealand grapefruit and marmalade oranges took place. Prices were:— Vegetables.—Asparagus. 1/ to 2/ per bundle. Beet, 4/ to 9/ a case, or 2/ to 3/ per dozen. Celery, cooking, 1/ to 2/ per bundle; dessert, -.6 to 4/6 per bundle. Carrots. 5/ per bag to 21/ per cwt. Cauliflowers, 3/6 to 9/ per sack. Cabbages, 2/ to 6/ per sack. French beans and stringless beans, hothouse. 1/6 to 2.3 per lb. Kumaras: Tauranga. 34/ per cwt. Leeks. 9d to 1.4 per bundle. Lettuce. 5/ to 16/ per case. Marrows, 7/ to 10/ per sack. Onions. 18/ to 22/ per sugar bag. Potatoes: New, 9d to 1/6 lb. Pumpkins, 18/ to 24/ per cwt. Parsnips, 21/ per cwt. Radish, 1/6 to 2/ per dozen. Rhubarb, 5/6 to 9/ per dozen. Spinach, 5/ to 9/ a case, spring onions, 1/ to 2/ per bundle. Swedes, 4/ per bag, up to 12/ per cwt. Turnips. 2/ to 3/ per case.

Fruit.—Apples: Granny Smith. 12 6 to 13/ per case; Delicious, 10/6 to 15/ per case; Stunner, 8/ to 10/6; Rome Beauty. 10/ to 13/; McLivers, 11/ to 13/ per case. Pears: Winter Cole. 19/ to 20/ per case; Winter Nelis. 20/ per case. Tomatoes: Hothouse, 2/6 to 3/10 per case. Tree tomatoes: New Black, 15/ to 22/ per case. Marmalade oranges. 3/6 to 6/ per case. Grapefruit: New Zealand, large sizes, 12/ to 16/ per case; medium small, 6/ to 9/ per case. Chinese gooseberries, 6/6 to 13/ per case.

Poultry.—The supply of poultry was medium and the demand was fair. The price remained unchanged. Selling rates were as follow: — Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime. 7/ to 8/ each; not prime, 4/ to 6/ each; light breads, prime. 5/ to 6/ each; not prime, 3/6 to 5/ each. Fat roosters, heavy breeds, prime, 4/9 to 6/9 each; light breeds, 3/ to 5/ each. Fat hens, heavy breeds, 4/9 to 6/9 each; light breeds. 3/ to 5/ each. Pullets, heavy breeds, best, 5/ to 10/ each; smaller, 4/ to 7/6 each; light breeds, best, 6/ to 8/ each; smaller, 5/ up. Drakes, young. 6/ to II each; old, 5/ up. Eggs, Batter, Flowers.— Eggs: Hen, standard, I/BV2 per dozen; duck, standard, I/812 per dozen. Farmers' butter. 1/2 to 1/7 per lb. Cut Flowers: A very heavy supply of flowers sold mostly at recent lower rates.