WELLINGTON PRODUCE PRICES.

Shannon News, 3 August 1923, Page 4

WELLINGTON PRODUCE PRICES.

Messrs W. Burbidge and Co., fruit auctioneers and produce merchants, report: —Market, dull for dessert apples with improved demand for cooking varieties. J’ears are in fair demand; eggs have tinned during the last few days; green vegetables arc lower this week but parsnips sell well, carrots, beetroot, and leeks are easier. Prices are as follows:—rDelicious (clean) 6/-

to S/6, (spot) 3/6 to 5/6; Stunners (clean) 5/6 to S/-, (spot) 4/- to Jonathans 3/- to 6/-; Munroes 4/6 to 6/-; Washingtons 5/- to 7/-; Winter Coles and Xelis 7/- to Id/-; Beurre Bose 6/- to 9/6 (all these for bushel cases): cabbage 3/6 to 16/-, sack; cauliflower 7/- to 24/-; carrots 9/- to .13/-; parsnips IS/- to 22/-; pumpkins 8/- to 9/6; marrows 0/- to 8/6, full sacks; artichokes 3/- to 5/-; beetroot 4/- to 6/- {small sacks) ; Brussel sprouts 13/- to 18/-, part sack; potatoes, -white, 7/- to 9/-; Dakotas 9/- to 11/-, cwt; rhubarb 0/- to 18/-, per dozen bunches, according to size; leeks 6d. to Hid, large bunch; spring onions 1/6 to 3/-, bunch; lettuce 3/6 to 7/-; spinach <>/- .to 11/-, case. ’ 'Flowers —Yellow tnunpels (hi to 106, dozen; yellow bulbs-Gd to 10d,. dozen; while 4d to 6d; violets .1/6 to o/b, dozen huuches; anemones Id to lid per flower.