IN THE MARKET PLACE
QUIET TRADING CHEAPER EGGS Quiet trading is registered in the City Marts. Fruit is moving out slowly. Vegetables meet with a steady housewives’ demand. Eggs continue to record a downward tendency. The Maunganui, from Sydney to-day, brought a limited consignment of mandarins, lemons and grapes. Local fruit is meeting with a quiet sale, with little movement in the market. In the field and garden produce section citron melons, celery and lettuces are specially heavily supplied. Regular consignments of vegetables continue to come forward from the southern portion of the island, although in greatly decreased quantities. Tauranga is supplying the bulk of the kumeras. Eggs are still falling in price, and lower values are recorded to-day. Butter meets with a steady sale at unchanged prices. Quotations lifted from the City Marts this morning range as follow: — Fruit Apples.—Delicious. 3s to 5s a case; ex cool store, 6s to 7s Gd; Jonathans, 5s to 7s; Munroes, 3s to 4s 6d; Ballarats, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; pigeonettes, 5s to 6s 6d. Pears.—Coles, 7s to 9s a case, Nelis, 9s to lis: Clairgeau, 7s to 7s 6d. Tomatoes.—Choice, local, hothouse, 4id to 77. d a lb; outdoor, 4s to 8s a case; No. 2. Is Gd to 3s; Hutts, 5s to 7s 6d. Grapes.—Hothouse, choice, Colrnan, Is 9d to 2s 2d a lb: others, Is 3d to Is 6d; Sydney whites, 22s 6d a case. Passions.—los to 18s a case. Lemons.—Local, tree-ripe, 6s to 12s a case; Association pack, cured, 16s to 225. Persimmons.—2s to 4s a case. Tree Tomatoes.—3s to Ss a case. Bananas.—2os to 25s a case. Mandarins.—9s to 10s a case. Oranges.—l4s to 16s a case. Vegetables Potatoes.—Southern, 7s to 7s Gd a cwt. Onions.—Southern, 12s 6d to 13s cwt. local. 7s to 8s a bag. Cabbages.—4s to 8s a sack. Kumeras.—7s to 10s a bag. Cauliflowers.—4s to 9s Gd a sack. Swedes.—ls to 2s 6d a bag. Pumpkins.—Best quality Triamble. 12s 6d to 13s 6d a cwt: others, 4s to Bs. Beans.—ls to 5s a case. Lettuces.—3s to 7s a case. Citron melons, 2s to 3s a sack. Quotations for eggs and butter, and the smaller-parcelled vegetables, will be found in the Kit Bag column on another page. -
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 14
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