FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 5

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week aro quoted, as follow: Appies.—Granny Smith, 6s to 9s per bushel case: cookers, 4s to 7s; Delicious, 4s to 12s 9d; Sturmcrs, 4s to Bs. Passion fruit, choice, 8s to 13s 6d por half case. Pears: Winter Coles, 6s 6d to 13s 6d por thiT'e-quarter case: Winter Nelis, 6s to 9s 6d; cookers, 6s to 9s. Lemons: Choice, 15s to 20b per bushel: others, 6s to 12s. Poorman oranges, 6s to 9s 6d per bushel. Tomatoes, hothouse, 8d to Is 2d per lb; tree tomatoes, 5s to 8s per half case. Kumeras, 3s to 4s per sugar bag. Sprouts, 6s 6d to 93 por bag. Now potatoes, Nelson, 2gd to 3d per lb. Potatoes, 5s 6d to 10s 6d per cwt. Pumpkins. 8s to 13s per sack. Cauliflowers, 4s to 10s per sack. Cabbage, 2s 6d to 8s por sack. Lettuce, choice, 5s to 193 por case. Spinach, 3s to 13s 6d por case. Swedes, 2s to 5s per case. Carrots. 3s 6d to 9s per case. Parsnips, 4s to 10s per case. Beetroot. Is 6d to 4s per case. Celery, 8s to 14s per case. Locks, 2d to 7d per bunch. Spring cabbage, 2s 6d to 6s per case. Onions, 10s to 15s per cental bag. Rhubarb, 8s to 18s per dozen bunches. Walnuts, 8d to lOd per lb. Eggs.—A grade. Is lOd por dozen; medium, Is 9d per dozen.

AUCKLAND MARKET PRICES. AUCKLAND, Aug. 10. Since last week the chief features in tlie local grain and produce markets have been a hardening in potato values and a further advance in pollard. Tlio later is now at a price that is approaching a prohibitive figure, but merchants report that the position in Australia continues very firm and only limited quantities are available from that source. The local price has advanced and now rules from £lO 10s to £lO 15s per ton. There is no change in tlm price of pollard from local mills, which is obtainable in limited supplies at £7 15s per ton. Bran is plentiful and sells steadily at £6 12s 6d per ton. There is no alteration iii the price of horse feed. Fow. wheat and maize are also unchanged. A sudden rise in the potato market in the south came as a surprise to local merchants. City values have risen in sympathy and white tables are quoted ex store' at £ll a ton, with a 5s premium for rods. _ The promised importation of \ ictorian onions has oased the market for Pukekolie supplies, and those are now obtainable at 17s 6d per cwt.