Keen Market Demand For Stone Fruits

Chronicle (Levin), 9 March 1949, Page 2

Keen Market Demand For Stone Fruits

Messrs. Townsend and Pau1, L':d., fruit and produce merchants, Wellington, report that during the past week there has been a. particularly sorong demand for all stone fruits, cnoice peaches realising up to 20s per box and poorer grades 10s per box, with Omega piums making up to 21s per box and all other lines realising attractive values. Glasshouse tomatoes have been keenly sought after and outside ripes have shown good returns. With a shortage of lem:ns a small parcel of Meyer lemons changed hands at famine prices. Although not in oversupply, vegetables on a whole have been cheap, tne exceptions being green peas, beans and cauliflowers. Late last week lettuce again realised high values. Flowers of all varieties have been keenly sought af er, especially asters and gladioli. Heavy yardings of poultry have been offered with a keen demand

for all prime birds, although cullings of White Leghorn hens have reduced prices for this line of poultry. Quotations are as follows: — Vegetables: BeanS, butter, 6d to £d; runners, 2d to 4d; stringloss, 6d to 8d; peas, 6d to 9d all per lb.; beetroot, 3s to 5s; cucumbers, 11s to 14s; lettuce, 15s to 25s; marrows, 3s to 5s; rhubarb, 4s to 7s; silverbeet, ls to 2s 6d; spinach/ 10s to 12s all per case; cabbage;- 10s to 14s; cauliflower, 16s to 20s; pumpkins, 12s to 14s; parsnips, 16s to 20s; swedes, 8s to 10s; carrots, 5s to 7s sugar bag; onions, 16s; potatoes, 16s to 18s cwt.; sweet corn, 8s bushel case; leeks, ls to ls 3d; mint, 4d to 8d; parsley, 4d to 6d; white turnipS, 2d to 4d; Chlnese * cabbage, 8d to ls all bunch. Fruit: Meyer lemons, 51s f-box; passion fruit, ls 3d to ls 9d per dozen; grapes, 2s; mushrooms, 2s to 3s; blackberries, ls to ls 2£d per lb.; peaches, Golden Queen, 12s to 20s; late Hobbs, 11s to 16s 9d; kalamazoo, 10s to 18s 6d; others, 10s to 14s; plums, Omega, 12s to 21s; Doris, 8s to 16s 6d; Grand Duke, 5s to 7s 6d; others, 4s to 6s 6d; choice nectarines, 12s to* 23s; cape gooseberries, 10s to 14s; greengages, 10s to 16s 6d all \- cases. Flowers: Asters, best, 8s to 14s; others, 3s to 4s; carnations, 8s 6d 'to 20s per gross; gladioli, 3s to 6s per dozen. Pojiltry: White Leghorn hens, best, 4s to 5s 3d; others, 2s 6d to 4s; Black Orpington hens, best, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; others, 3s 6d to 7S 6d; pullets, good, 10s 6d to 12s 6d; others, 3s 6d to 5s 6d; white ducks, young, 7s to 10s; old, 5s 6d to 7s; coloured young, 8s to 9s; old, 3s to 4s 9d; geeSe, 6s 6d to 8s each; cockerels, ls 9d to 2s; turkeys, 2s 2d to 2s 3d lb. live weight.