FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 15

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce on the Wellington markets this week are quoted by Thompson Bros., Laery and Co., Ltd., W. Burbidge and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend'and Paul, Ltd., and George homas and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Apples: New seaison's, Gravensteins, 8/6 to 12/- per bushel case; cookers, 5/6 to 7/-; Cox's Orange, 7/- to 10/-; Worcesters, 4/- to 6/-. Pears: W.B.C., 6/- to 8/6 per | case; L.B.J., 6/6 to 8/-. Greengages, ' 8/- to 10/- per half-case. Peaches, choiee desert, 7/- to 9/- por half-cse; cookers, 5/- to 6/6. Apricots, choice, 6/- to 8/- per half-case; others, 4/- to 5/6. Nectarines, 6/- to 9/6 per half-chse. Plums, Purple Kings, 8/- to 10/6 per half-case; Burbanks, 5/- to 8/6; Blue Diamonds, 6/- to 7/-; Doris, 8/- to 9/-; Monarch, 6/- to 7/-. Baspberries, 8/6 to 11/6 per tin. Oucumbers: Outside, 6/- to 10/- per case. Lemons: Choice 12/- to 17/- a bushel; others, 6/- to 10/-. Kumeras: H.B., 7/- to 8/- per sugarbag. Green peas, 2/6 to 9/- per sack. Marrows, 6d to 1/- per case. Toinatoes, local hothouse, 4d to 6d per lb.; Nelson red, 5/6 to 7/6 per half-case; coloured, 4/6 to 5/6. Grapes: H.B., 7^d to llid a lb. Beans, Id to 2d a lb. Scarlet runners, l^d to 2|d a lb. Potatoes, 5/6 to 8/6 a cwt. Pumpkins, 4/- to 6/- a sack. Cauliflowers, 3/- to 7/- a sack. Lettuce, 3d to 1/- per case. Spinach, 4/6 to 7/- a case. Swedes, 3/- per case. Carrots, 6d to 1/1 a bunch. Parsnips, 3d to 7d a bunch. Beetroot, id to 2d a bunch. Cabbage, 1/- to 3/- per case. Onions, Pukekohe, 5/- per sugar-bag. i Khubarb, 2/- to 5/- per dozen buncbes. Eggs: 1/10 to 1/11 per dozen.