SMALLER OFFERINGS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 8

SMALLER OFFERINGS

FRUIT IN WELLINGTON VEGETABLES ALSO FIRM The smaller quantity of fruit offering in Wellington this week has had the effect of strengthening values in general, lines meeting a keener demand including all citrus, tomatoes, passionfruit, Chinese gooseberries, tree tomatoes, quinces and grapes. According to Townsend and Paul, Limited, fruit and produce merchants, vegetable prices also have firmed considerably, most improvement being shown in beans, cauliflowers, silverbeet, peas and marrows, while a good demand continues for beetroot, cucumbers, spinach, rhubarb and lettuce. Slow selling lines include pumpkins, swedes, pie melons, cabbage, . carrots and parsnips. Slightly less poultry has been offering and values remain firm. Larger supplies of (lowers have been coming in, the demand being very keen and the market showing a steady rise. Quotations are: Peaches, half-case, 22s to 30s; passionfruit, 12s to 20s; tree tomatoes, 9s to 19s; persimmons. 8s to 15s; Chinese gooseberries, 22s to 30s; Feiloas, 4s to 14s; quinces, three-quart-er case, 25s to 31s: Cape gooseberries per pound, Is to Is 6d; grapes (HH' 3s 6d to ss, outside Is fid to 2s fid; tomatoes, according to quality, 5s to 13s per half-case; all citrus, ceiling; cauliflowers, sack, 9s to 225: swedes, 4s to Bs, pumpkins, 2s to 13s; melons, Is to 4s, cabbage, 2s to 11s; carrots. 4s to 12s: parsnips, 3s to 9s;. potatoes and onions, ceiling; artichokes, per case, 8s to 16s, turnips, 5s to 9s fid; silverbeet, ceiling; marrows. 3s to 8s fid; beetroot, as to 12s, celery, 4s to 11s fid; cucumbers 12s to 455; leeks, 8s to 13s fid: spinach, Gs fid to 16s; rhubarb, 5s to 245; lettuce, 3s to 18s: beans, per pound, French. Is 4d to Is lid; peas, fid to Is Id. Hens, W.L. best 6s to 7s. others 4s to as, b.u. heavy 10s to 12s, light, 4s to 7s; pullets. 5s to 15s; roosters, 4s to 8s; cockerels Is fid to 2s 9d a pound. Chrysanthemums, 4d to Is fid a bunch: poppies, tangerine, Is fid to 3s fid gross, art 3s to fis: heath. Is to 2s a bunch; violets, 63 to 9s a doz.; carnations 2s to fis a doz: gynsophffo, Is to Is 3d a bunch, pnemonies, fid to Is 3d a bunc_i. freezias, Is 6d to 3s: stock, 8d to Is 6d a bunch; roses, 2s to 6s a doz.