FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 191, 9 May 1940, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices Prices of fruit ami vegetables iu the Wellington market this week are quoted by Laery and (Jo., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., D, Bowie and Co., ’Thompson Bros., Ltd., and A. Pope and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Quinces: 6/- to 9/6 a bushel. Grapes, hothouse, 1/9 to 2/3 a lb. Cape, gooseberries, 7/6 st half ease. Passion fruit, 6/6 to I I/- n half ease. Tree tomatoes, 8/- to 11/(5 a half ease. Tomatoes: Hutt coloured. 2/- to 4/a half ease; ripe. 2/6 to 9/6. Mushrooms. field, 6d. to 1/3 it lb. Potatoes: 5/- to 7/6 n cwt. Onions. 10/- to 12/- a cental bag. Knmeras, 6/6 to 7/6 a sugar bag. Beans, 10/- to 30./a case. Green peas. 10/- to 24/- a sack. Cabbage : 3/- to 6/4 a sack. _ Lettuce. Gd. to 2/- a case. Pie melons,_s/- to 7/a sack. Cauliflowers. 4/- to 7/- a snek. Silver beet. 6d. to 1/6 a ease. Spinach. 3/- Io 10/6 a case. Marrows, 1/6 to 3/a case. Pumpkins. 3/6 to 7/- a sack. Carrots: 2/- to 3/6 a case. Swedes. 1/6 to 4/6 a case. Parsnips. 3/- to 6/6 a case. Beetroot. 1/- to ■ 4/3 a case. Leeks, 5/- to 8/- a case. Celery, 5/- to 8/- a ease. Rhubarb, 10/- to 15/- a dozen bunches.