MARKET PRICES FOR FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES
Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., fruit and produce merchants, Wellington, report that during the past few days realisations for fruit, vegetables, flowers afnd poultry, ai'e as follows: — Peaches, trays, ceiling price; dessert, 9/-,- 11/6; cookers, 7/-, 8/6; plums, dessert, 9/-, '11/6; others, 5/-, 8/6; apricots, choice, 16/-, 24/-; nectarines, 8/-, 14/- i-case; cherries, 10/-, 26/box; black-currants, 20/-, 22/Christchurch; 10/-, 15/- Greytown; tomatoes, red, 1/2, 1/7; coloured, 9d, 1/7 lb.; gladioli, 2/6, 4/6; carna--tions, 9d,' 1/6; primroses, 3d, 6d doz.; gerbera, 4d, 6d; gypsophila, 6d, 2/6 bunch; beetroot, 8/-, 12/-; Lettuce, 15/-, 28/-; marrows, 3/-, 6/-; cucumbers, 5/-, 14/- cass; cabbage, 3/-, 1/- sack; peas, 3d, 1/-; stringless beans, .5d, 9d lb.; carrots, parsnips, silverbeet, kumeras, onions, pumpkins, swedes, ceiling price; raspberries, ceiling price. W.L. hens, 4/-, 6/4; B.O. hens, 8/-, 12/6; ducks, young, 11/6, 18/6; old, 7/-, 12/6; geese, 8/-, 14/each; cockerels, 3/-; turkeys, 2/2 per lb. live weight.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1948, Page 2
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155MARKET PRICES FOR FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1948, Page 2
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