AUCTION PRICES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 6

AUCTION PRICES

Heywood and Amson report that at their usual Saturday morning sale, held at the Auction Mart, Tutanekai Street, Rotorua, the following prices were realised: — Dessert peaches, Paragon, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; Wiggins, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; Hales 3s to 3s 6d; cooking, 2s 3d to 2s Sd. Plums, Damsons, 2s to 2s 9d; Burbanks, ls 6d to Is 9d; October jPurple 2s to 2s 6d; Satsuma, 2s 6d to 3s; Doris, ls 9d to 2s 3d; Purple King, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; others, ls to ls 6'd. Nectarines, 3s to 3s 6d; tomatoes, 'first grade, 2s 6d to 3s; second grade., ls 8d to 2s 4d; sauce, ls 3d to ls 6d; apples, choice dessert Gravensteins, 4s to 5s per bushel cases; half-bushel cases, 2s 9d to 3s; cooking, halfbushel cases to ls 9d; bushel cases 3s to 3s 3d; pears, Bon Chretians, bushel cases, 4s to 4s 6d; half-cases, 2s 3d to 2s 9d. Potatoes, ls 9d to 2s 3d; onions, 2s 9d to 3s; pickling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; marrows, ls to 2s per doz; pumpkins, 3s ld to 4s 3d sugar bag; parsnips, lOd to ls per doz. bundles; carrots, 9d to ls per doz; white turnips, 9d doz; red beet, ls 9d to 2s doz; silver beet, 6d to 9d per doz; cabbage, 3s 4d to 3s 6d per doz; red cabbage, 2s per doz; poultry, heavy breeds to 3s 2d; young cockerels, ls 7d to ls lOd. Demand: — Tomatoes and nectarines, good; peaches, fair, other lines easier; vegetables, fair; poulti-y, good.