Produce Market Brighter

Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1948, Page 2

Produce Market Brighter

— — Messrs.- Townsend and- Paul, fruit and ■ produce merchants, Wellington,, report that during the past week' the- market has taken on. a brighter and- brisker outlook, • . the reason for •this.being the easins off of supplies of all varieties of fruit and/ vegetables. Lines coming to hand have.met with a keen -demand and biddirig has been very brisk. Tpm^tqes haye during the past few days taken a sharp rise in values, whereas all vegetables' are realising. excellent prices. Quotations • are ( as follows: Peaches, choice, 9/-, .11/6 ^-case; othe'rs, . 6/-, 8/- -J-case; plums, Omeg'k/ 11/6 i-case; others, 4/-, 8/- i-c'ase; greengages, 13/-, 15/pcase; cape gooseberries, 8/-, 12/6 |-case; quince's, 10/-, 15/- f-case; passion fruit, 8/-, 16/- box; tomatoes," col., 3/6, 5/3 -|-case; ripe, 2/6, 4/6 i-case; mushrooms, 2/^-, 3/6] per lb.; blackberries, 6d, 1/6 per lb.; beetroot, 10/-, 18/- case; beans, butter, 9d per lb.;- stringleSs, 3-|d, 7d per lb.; scarlet runner, Id l per lb.; cabbages, ceiling price, 14/6 cwt.; carrots,. ceiling price; cauliflowers, ceiling price; celery, 15/-, 20/- case; sweet corn, 18/- case; c*ucumbers, 3/-, 5/-; kumeras, ceiling price; spinach, 20/-, 25/- case; swedes, ceiling price; rhubarb,- 8/-, 10/^case; silver beet, ceiling price; pumpkins, 8/-, 15/- sack; potatoes, 8/-, 17/- cwt.; peas, 4d, 1/3- per lb.; parsnips,. ceiling price; lettuce, 8/-, 13/- case; marrows, 3/-, 6/- case; bnions, 15/-, 17/- cwt.; melons, rock, 7/- case; pie, 2/6, 6/- sack; asters, 2/-, 9/- gross; carnations, 4/-, 6/- gross; gladioli, 3/-, 10/dozen; pri'mula, 4/-, 6/- gross; dahlias, 4/-, 6/- .gross; gypsophila, 9d, 1/3 bunch. Hens, W.L., best, 3/6, 4/6; others, 2/9, 3/6; B.O. hens, best, 7/-, 10/-; others, 5/6, 7/6; ducks, young, .white, 9/-, 12/6; old," 6/6, 9/-; young, eoloured, 6/6, 9/-; old, 3/-, 4/6; geese, 6/-, 10/-; turkeys, 2/-, 2/2 lbs.; W.L. cockerels, 2/-, 2/3 per lb.