In the Market Place

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 11

In the Market Place

STEADf SALES BLACK CURRANTS SOON With very cheap rates ruling for local fruits and with high values for imported, sales in the City Marts continue to be steady, with no important change of prices this week. The cheapness of local fruits is largely due to the heavy supplies being forwarded. ... Within a day or so the first supplies in the brief black currant season will be offered. More lots will come forward throughout next week. Strawberries. loganberries plums and apricots continue to sell at low ‘“Local cooking apples are now being offered. A few lines of peaches aie Se Canadian apples, oranges and Island bananas axe all bein ß cleared at late rates. The prices this week for new potatoes are the lowest ruling m the markets for some years. Poultry is selling at late rates. Quotations: FRUIT * t o ranadian: Delicious, 21s to 25s Apples.— canaa'a". 24s to 255; a case; New to %PJ New Zealand: Gre" e n. a ti fls; cooking, Ss to 12s, according to s' ze - r-intain Cooks, Marguerite'S and Hekfnsley Surprise, 7d to io ip?ic C ots l -Australiar.. t^ValUy! Thames, Is 6di to b . ■ case according Bananas. —oi» lu ovo «. to Oranges.*—Californian Navels, 35s to 4 °Plums.-Js to 4s a box. 10S Vo 14.; inferior, 5S Giapes- — Californian, in barrels, 20s to ""Tomatoes. — Hot bouse, 6d to Is a lb; ° U Ch°en'ies d -Australian, 10s to 12s. field produce Potatoes. —New, Is M to 2s 6d a bag. r a cwt- £ P'S “ k £e^-lV6d 2 m 4s°6da bag. Beans.—2l d to 4d a_ case . ls t to a 4s g a dozen. Vegetable „ s a dozen. CauUfioweA— On benches, 3s to Ss a d °Spiliach.—ls to 1. 6d a dozen pach S k, o~-^d^ S is n a b/ndie. Cavrots ParsiliPs, Beet* and Turnips.SU to Is 9d a dozen. SSSSi££?* 6d'a bundle.