Over Supply Of Vegetables Brings Prices Down

Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1949, Page 2

Over Supply Of Vegetables Brings Prices Down

•> . ! r't ' j ' - Messrs Townsend and Paul, Lt'd., fruit and produce merchants-, WeliingtbnV repor't that there' ^has been littrei 'change in the iriarket ' this Week.- Indications are/ liowever, ,that with the easing ■ in supplies, Values for . all citrus f ruits:. 'will take a rise./ Kunieras were in keen demand .at attractive ' values, . while mandarines realised famine prices. AU vegetables appear to be in oversupply and values are aecordingly ow. Yardings of poultry have been small, and values exceedingly good. Quotations are as follows: — Fruit: Tree tomatoes, 5s to 8s; chinese gooseberries, choice, 13s to 20s; ottiers, 6s to 12s; meyer lemons, 5s 6'd to 7s; mandarines, 25s to 30s half cases; passion fruit, ls 6d to ls 9d per dozen; New Zealand grape fruit, 9s to 12s per bushel. Vegetab'es: Artichokes, 4s to 5s per box; stringless hothouse beans, ls 6d; peas, ls to ls ld; sprouts, 6d to lOd all per pound; beetroot, 7s to 9s; cabbage, spring, 9s to 12s; lettuce, 4s to 9s; leeks, 5s to 10s; marrows, 3s to 5s; rhubarb, 7s to 10s; silver beet, 2s to 8s; spinac'h, 10s to 18s; white turnips, 5s to 7s all cases; savoy cabbage, 3s 6d to 12s; :cauliflowers, 3s to 9s; pumpkins, triumble, 6s to 10s; red, 6s to 9s 6d all sacks; carrots, 5s to 6s; parsnips, 5s to 6s 6d all bags; kumeras, 35s to 37s 6d; swedes, 8s 6'd per cwt.; chinese cabbage, 3d to 6d per head. Fiowers: Sol d'ors, 12s to 18s; poppies, art, best, 8s 6d to 9s 6d; others, 5s to 7s; tangerine, 4s to 6s 6d; Carnations, 24s to 36s per gross; chrysanthemums, 3s to 5s; iris, 4s 6d to 6s per dozen blooms; violets, 5s 6d to 9s 6d per dozen bunches; stock, a good deinand. Poultry: White ' Leghorn hens, 4s to 7s 6d; Black Orpington, 7s 6'd to 14s; white ducks, 9s to 16s; coloured, 6s 6d to 10s 6d; roosters, 4s 6d to 7s 6d; guinea fowls, 18s 6d all each; turkeys, 2s 3d; cockerels, 2s to 2s 3d perlb. live. weight.