FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices

Prices of fruit, vegetable, and otEer produce on the Wellington marltets this week are quoted by Thompson Bros., Ltd., Laery and Co., Ltd., W, Burbidge and Co., Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd,, Geq Thomas and Co., Ltd., as follows:— Passion fruit, 14/- to 17/- carton. Apples: New sea&on's Gravqnsteins, 8/6 to 12/- bushel; cookers, 6/- to 8/-; Cox's Drange, 7/- to l6/-j Worcesters, 5A to 6/-; Jonathans, 6A to ?/-. Pears: W.B.C., 9/- to 11/6 three.quarter cafse; .B.J., 7/- to 9/-. Quinces, 8/- to 9/- busheL Greengages, 9/- to 12/6 half case. Peaches: Choice dessert, 6/- to 9/half case; cookers, 5/- to 6/-, Apricots, choice, 6/- to 8A; others, 4/- to 5/6. Nectarines, 5/- to 7/6. Plums: Purple Kings, 8/- to 10/6; Burbanks, 6/- to 9/-; Blue Diamonds, 6/6 to 7/6; Dorie, 10A to 12/6, Monarch, 5/6 to 7/6, Easpberries, 7/6 to 10/- tin. Cucumbers, outside, 8/- to- 11/- banana case. Lemons, choice, 14/- to 18/- bushel; others, 6/- to 10/-, Kumeras, H.B., 7/to 8/- sugar bag. Green peas, 3A tq 10A sack. Ma?rows, 6d to 1/- case. Tomatoes: Local coloured, 6/- to 7/6 half-case; local ripe, 6/6 to 11/-; Nelson Red, 5/6 to 6/6; coloured. 5/'to 6/-.

Hothpuse grapes, 9d to 1/2} pound. Beans, ld to 3d pound. Fie melQns, 7/to 9/- eack. Pptatoes, 5A to 8/- cwt. Piunpkins, 2/6 to 5/- Back, Caulifiowers, 4/- to 8/- sack. Lettuce, 3d to 1/- banana case. Spinach, 2/6 to 5/-. Swcdes, 2/to 3/9. Carrots, 2d to 5d bunch. Parsnips, 2d to 4d. Beetroot, ld to 2d, Cabbage, 6d to 1/6 banana case, Onions, Pukekohe, 5/- sugar bag. Bnubarb, 2A to 4/. doz, bunches. ®ggs, 1/10 te J/ll dozen.