ROTORUA PRODUCE SALE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 488, 23 March 1933, Page 6

ROTORUA PRODUCE SALE

Heywood and Amson report that at their usual Saturday morning auction sale, held at the mart, Tutanekai Street, the following prices were realised: — Apples: Golden Pippin, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; Delicious, 5s to 5s 6d; Jonathan, half-cases, 2s 6d to 3s; Parlins' beauty 4s to 4s 6d; Northern Spy s 9d to 5s; seconds, 3s 9d to 4s; other varieties, 3s to 4s 6d. Pears: Be-urre Diel, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; local, Louis Bon Jersey, half-cases, 2s 6d. Peaches: Hobb's Late Red, 3s to 3s 6d; Hay's Cling, 3s 3d to 3s 6; Golden Queen, 4s 6d to 5s 3d; Lippitts' Late Red, 3s 3d to 3s -6d. Quinces, 2s 3d to 3s 3d. Grapes, 2s to 2s 2d per chip; per case, 6s 6d to 7s "6d. Hutt tomatoes, first grade, 2s 9d to 3s 3d; seconds, 2s to 2s 6d; sauce. Is 3d to ls 10d." Vegetables: Potatoes, ls 6d to 2s' 3d; onions, 3s to 3s 9d; marrows, ls 6d to 2s 3d per doz; pumpkins, 8d to ls 4d each; per sack, 5s 3d to 5s 6d; jam melons, 9d to ls ld each; rhubarb, ls to ls 3d per doz; bundles carrots, ls 2d to ls 6d; parsnips, ls to ls 2d; beet, ls per doz; cabbage, 2d to 4s each; lettuce, ls to ls 6d per doz. Poultry: White. Leghorn hens, ls 3d to ls 8d each; Black Orpingtons, ls 9d. Demand. — Peaches, grapes, quinces, good; tomatoes, good; other lines, fair; vegetables, slow; poultry, fair.