Ceiling Prices For Lemons At Wellington Market

Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1948, Page 2

Ceiling Prices For Lemons At Wellington Market

^ — Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., fruit and produce merchants, Wellington, report. that dunng the past week supplies of both tree tomatoes and Chmese gooseberries have been particularly shcrrt and values have been most attractive. Meyer lemons are also in short supply and ceiling price is readily o'otainable. Owing to heavy shipments of Australian oranges the demar.d for grapefruit is very weak and only selected sizes are realislng up to 15s per bushel case. In the vegetable section most lines are still realis■ing ceiling, such as silverbeet, pars-l nips, swedes, spring and savoy cab-j ibage, and Ohakune carrots. Mostl i attractive values are being .realisedi for spinach, celery and choice qual-j ity Hawkes Bay lettuce. With heavy consignments of flowers arriving, satisfactory values are still ( being obtained/ Heavy yardings of poultry have , been offered and choice heavy ' birds are bringing splendid values. Quotations are: — Fruit: Grapefruit, selected sizes, 10s to 15$; others, 8s to 10s; sweet oranges, 6s to -10s bushel case; tree tomatoes, 10s to 17s -3d; Chinesej gooseberries, 26s ~6d to 44s ^-case; Meyer lemons, ceiling. Vegetables: 'Silverbeet, parsnips, Ohakune carrots, spring and savoy cabbage, swedes (choice), ceiling; rhubarb, best, 24s; others, 16s to 18s; "cauliflowers, 10s; beetroot, 18s to 24s; leeks, 16s to 20s; Hawke's Bay lettuce, 20s to 25s; others, 10s I to 16s; best spinach, 30s to 35s; celery, 35s to 40s per case; pumpkins, 12s to 17s per sack; kumeras, 10s to 13s per sugar bag; sprouts, ls to ls 3d per lb.; "spring onions, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per buneh. Flowers: Poppies, tangerine, 2s to 6s 6d; art, 3s to 7s; sol d'ors, 10s to 15s; daffodils, 10s to 18s; jonquils, 2s '6d to 5s.. 6d pej gross; vio.ets, 2s 6d to 6s 6d. per dozen bunches; an.emon.es, 6d to ls ld; carnations, 2s " to 5s 6d per bunch; freesias, 4s 6d to 6s 6d per dozen bunches; poultry, white leghorn hens, 3s to '7s; black orpington hens, 8s to 18s 6d; black orpington cockerels, 9s 6d td"13s )6d; -white ducks, 12s 6d to I5s1 coloured, 10s to 12s; geese, 5s 6d tb 8s;' tufke^s, 2s 2d to 2s 3d per lb. live weigiit.* • '