TEH CITY MARKETS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2372, 30 January 1915, Page 10

TEH CITY MARKETS.

Supplies of local fruit have been very "heavy on; the local market during the (Past week, stone fruit particularly comang forward-in big lots. Plums have •been selling very cheaply, while most of the other lines of stone fruit have 'jbeon. holding ■up very fair average [prices. Vegetables generally have been ■■in. fair 'supply; values easing slightly ■during the. week. Now potatoes are in ivery heavy supply, the market being lather weak at the moment, and will in all probability ease during the nest Jew days;. Onions are also in heavy supply, values having' eased considerably during the pa?t week. Yesterday's approximate values were: lAmerican'oranges, 17s. 6d. to 19s. case; American, lemons, 300's, 30s. ca«>; Mesisinas, 150'to'ISO's, 305.; queen pines, 9s. to 12s.- 6d.'; pineapples, 7s. to Bs.'; passion, fruit, (45.. to 6s. watermelons, is..to-2s; 6d. each; dessert peaches, 3s. ,to ss. 6d; half-case; cooking' peaches, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 3d.; dessert plum 6, 2s. to •4s. 6d. half-case; nectarines, 3s. 6d. to ss. half-case; dessert pears, ss. to 6s.' ■case; dessert apples, 6s. to Bs. case; cooking apples, 46. to 55.; grapes, 9d. '.to Is. lb.tomatoes, 4s to 6s. half-case; ■apricots,: <ls. to ss. Pd. half-case; green-. ,'gages, 4s'." to;:4s. 6d. half-case. Vegetables--Cabbages, 3s. to 3s. 6d. isack; cauliflower, ss. to Bs.; carrots, ,3s. 9d. to"4s.' 6d.; parsnips, 4s. to 4s. 'Gd.; beetroot,-, same; French beans, Id. oto lbi ; broad beans, 2s. lialf-sack; •swedo turnips,".'2s. 6d. cwt.; green peas, OS. to lOsv'sack; cucumbers, 06. to 6s. case; rhubarb, 2s. doz.; celery, Is. 6d. ■to 3s. dozen; spinnach, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. case; vegetable marrows, 2s. to 3s. ■sack; new;'potatoes, £4 15s. .to £6 15s. ..ton, according' to sample; onions, £6 to 'it'S ton; jfreslreggs, Is. 6d. dozen.