FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 6

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Wellington Market Prices ' Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellmgton- markets this week are quoted by Thompson Bros., Ltd., Geo. Thomas :and Co.', ■ Ltd.,; W. Burbidge aud Co.,j Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., Townsehd and Paul, Ltd.; and Laery and Co., Ltd., as. follows: — Apples, new season 7s: Cookers, : 3/6 to 5/- per bushel case; Cox. Orange, 3/to 6/-; Jonathans, 4/- to 5/-; Delieious, 4/6 to 7/6.. Passion fruit, 5/- to. 7/6 per half-case. Pears, W B.C., 9/-, to 12/- per f-case; L.B.J., 13/- to 16/-; quipces, 10/r to 12/- a bushel. Peaches, choice dessort, 5/6 to 9/6 per ^-case;. cookers, 4/- to 5/-; apricots, choice, 7/6 to 9/6 per T-ca.se; others, 5/- to 6/-; nectafines, 5/- to 9/3 per i-case; plums, choice dessert, 7/- to 10/per ^-case; cookers, 4/- to 7/-; raspberries, 8/ to 10/- per tin. Cucumbers, outside: 4/- to 9/3 per case. ' * Lemons, choice, 16/- to 19/6, a bushel; others, 8/- to 12/-. Kumeras, H.B.: 8/- per sugar-hag; green peas, 7/- to 14/- per saelc; marrows, 1/— to 1/6 -per case; tomatoes, local coloured, 1/6 to • 2/6 per A-case; local ripe, 2/- to 2/9; cape gooseberries, 5/- per -J-case. ... Grapes, hothouse, 9d to 1/2 a pound. Beans, 1/- to 7/- a case; pie melons, 6/- to .8/- a saclc; potatoes, 5/- to 7/a cwt. ; pumpkins, 5/- to 7/- a sack; cauliflowers, 2/- to 7/- a sack. liettuco, 9d- to" 3/,- pvr case; ' spinach, 1/- to 3/6 per case; swedes, 3/- to 6/3 per caso; carrots, 2d to 6d-per bunch; parsnips, 4/- to 7/- pcr case; beet'root, 1/- to 1/6 per case; cabbage, 1/- to 1/9 per case; onions, 'Pukekohe, 4/6 to 5/- per sugar-hag; rhubarb",. 3/- to 5/per dozen bunches. Uggs, 1/1 1 to 2/- a dozen