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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., and W. Burbidge and Co. report present wholesale values of fruit and vegetables as follows:— ft Apples: Gravenstein, 3s to *s per bushel: Worcester Permain, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Jonathans and Delicious, 3s to 4s 6d; cooking apples, 3s to 4s; Cox's Orange, 3s to 6s; pears, William Bon Chretien, 2s 6d to 4s 6d; Louis Bon Jersey, 5s to 6s; peaches, Hobbs late, 3s 6d to 4s per halfcase; Lippiates,' 3s' to 4s; Golden Queen, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; nectarines, 5s 6d to 6s' 6d; quinces, 6s to 7s per bushel; lemons, cured 15s to 18s; others, 12s to 15s; tomatoes, Hutt Bed, 2s to 2s 6d per half-case; coloured, 2s to 2s 4d; grapes, hothouse, 6d to 9dperlb; cucumbers, hothouse, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per dozen; potatoes, 5s to 8s per cwt; onions, 2s 6d per sugar bag; cabbage, Is to Is 6d per banana case; lettuce, Is to 2s; cauliflowers, 7s to 9s per sack; green peas, 6s to 10s per half-sack; French beans, 7s to 9s; scarlet runners, 4s 6d to 6s per banana case; marrows, Is 6d to 2s; pumpkins, red, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per sack,-.car-rots, 2%d to 3d per bunch; parsnips, 7d to 7%d; swedes, Is to 2s per banana case; white turnips, Is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches; spring onions, 6d to Is per dozen; beetroot, 3d to 4d per bunch; eggs, fresh, first grade, Is 6d per dozen. JUTE POSITION. Private cabled advices from Calcutta received tbis week show that the market is steadily firming and the slow upward tendency of the past three months continues. " Of the 252,000 bales of wool offered for sale by auction in South Africa between July 1 and November 30, 197,000 bales •were sold. The average export price of the greasy wool exported during the five months was IOHd a lb.