IN THE MARKET PLACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 12

IN THE MARKET PLACE

GOOD DEMAND FOR FRUIT VEGETABLES SCARCE Supplies of green vegetables are rapidly becoming exhausted in the City Markets. Most varieties of seasonal fruit are well supplied and meet with a steady demand. The market for tomatoes has shown a slight improvement over the past few days, but ample stocks are meeting with a ready sale. Hothouse grapes are rather dull of sale, -v Bon cretian pears are now in good supply. All varieties of plums continue to make fair values. Ripe bananas have firmed in value during the past three or four days. Apples are meeting with only a very mediocre sale, and there is practically no demand for second grades. In the field and garden produce section good quality potatoes are hard to procure. Supplies drawn from the Rangitaike are effected with blight. Better quality tubers are expected to come forward from Hawke’s Bay within the next week or so. Green vegetables, owing to the continued dry weather, are going right off the market. Increased supplies of eggs are meeting with a correspondingly easier demand, though quotations meantime are unchanged. Prices under the hammer at to-day’s auctions in the City Marts ranged as follow: FRUIT Apples.—Gravensteins, choice, coloured 5s to 8s a case, green 3s to 4s 6d; cookers, 3s to 4s 6d; Willie Sharps, 3s to 4s 6d. Pears. —Bon Cretien, us to 7s 6d. Tomatoes. —No. Is, 2s to 3s a box; No. 2’s, Is 3d to Is 6d. Plums.—Angeline, 6s to Ss a case; Satsuma, 7s to 8s; October Purple, 6s 6d to 10s 6d; Ogons, 4s, to ss; prunes, 5s to ds 6d; diamonds, 6s to 7s; damsons, 7s to 9s. Apricots.—Otago, order, 4s to Ss a case. Peaches.—Best coloured dessert, 6s to 7s 6d a case; others, 5s to b*& 9d. Lemons. —16s, 235, 255. Grapes.—Hothouse, lOd to Is od a lb. Oranges.—American, 2*?s to 31s a case; Jaffa, 30s to 345. Bananas.—Repacked, ripe, 20s to 21s a case; No. 2’s, 10s a case. Nectarines.—-4s 6d to 8s Sd a case. Cape Gooseberries.—Old to 7id a lb. VEGETABLES Potatoes.—lst grade, 5s to 8s 6d a sugar-bag; others, 2s to ss. Pumpkins.—l6s to 24s a cwt. Swedes.—Bs to 4s 6d a bag. * Onions. —5s to 6s a Dag. Cabbage.—3s to 10s a sack. Green Peas.—6s to 12s 6d a bag. Beans. —6s to 12s 6d a bag. Lettuce.—2s to 9s a ca-Ve. Prices of eggs and butter and smaller parcelled vegetables will be found in the Kit Bag column on another page.