MARKET REPORT

Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1947, Page 3

MARKET REPORT

♦ — Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., fruit and produce merchants, Wellington, report that during the past week only limited supplies of fruit have been arriving, meeting with an exceptonally ' strdng demand. Vegetables have been coming to 'hand more freely with subsequent reduction in values. Smaller yardings of poultry have resulted in a very keen demand, heavy birds being placed at exceptionally fine figures. Flowers have been more plentiful with values accordingly easier. Quotations are: Chinese gooseberries, 40/-, 49/-; tree tomatoes, 10/-, 20/6; passionfruit, 20/-, 43/-; chokos, 4/-, 8/- i-case; guavas, 1/-, 1/6; hothouse tomatoes, 3/-, 5/6 lb; walnuts and all citrus, ceiling price; cabbage, choic^ Savoy, ceiling price; others, 6/-^ 10/-; spring cabbage, choice, ceiling price;. others, 6/-, 12/- case; kumeras, new potatoes, onions, ceiling price; cauliflower, 5/-, 27/6; swedes, 3/-, 5/-; parsnips, 4/-, 8/-; pumpkins, choice Triumbles, ceiling price; others, 6/-, 18/- sack; beetroot, 6/-, 9/-; celery, 15/-, 37/6; leeks, 6/-, 10/-; spinach, 9/-, 24/6; silverbeet, 3/-, 8/-; lettuce, 8/-, 22/- case; green peas, 1/-, 1/5 lb; Chinese cabbage, 9d, 1/3; mint, 1/6, 2/-; spring onions, 1/-, 3/-; radishes, 3d, 5d; parsley, 1/6, 2/6 bunch. Hens, heavy, 6/-, 17/-; lighter, 3/-, 9/-; pullets, 6/-, 18/-; roosters, 5/-, '12/-; ducks, young, 6/-, 17/-; old, 6/-, 9/6; cockerels, 1/6, 2/9; turkeys, 2/-, 2/2 lb live weight; geese, 6/-, 9/- each. Carnations, 1/-, 4/-; violets, 2/-, 6/- dozen; freezias, 1/-, 1/6; imemones, 6d, 1/6; boronia, 1/9, 3/- bunch; tulips, 3/-, 5/- dozen; sol d'ors, 6/-, 15/-; jonquils, 4/-, 9/-; daffodils, 9/-, 15/-; poppies, tangerine, 1/6, 4/-; art, 4/6, 9/gross.