In the Market Place

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 10

In the Market Place

PEARS SELLING NOW POTATO RATES IMPROVE The first good lines of dessert pears are. now offering on the City marklt.es at satisfactory rates. Fine weather has been responsible for a slight improvement throughout the sales of all lines and prices are sounder than they have been for several weeks. Supplies are still abundant, however, and plums, peaches and tomatoes are coming forward in extremely large quantities. Island bananas reveal a big increase in rates. A rise has also taken place in Californian oranges, which are dear. Hothouse grapes are slightly cheaper. Lemons continue to sell at good prices. A rise of Is to 4s 6d a bag has taken place for new potatoes, which have been at glut rates, unprofitable for growers, for some time past. Some marketers predict a firmer market. Cabbages, pumpkins and lettuces are heavily supplied and other lines are also in good stock. Quotations; FRUIT Peaches. —Medium and small sizes. 3s to 4s; choice, 4s to ss. Plums.—Burbanks, small, Is to 2s; large, 2s to 3s; Sultans, small, 2s to 3s; large, 4s to ss. Tomatoes.—Outdoor Xo. 2, Is Gd to 2s; Xo. 1,2 s to 3s; smooth, 4s to 6s. Apples.—Green, small, 2s 6d to 3s Gd: large, 5s to 6s; coloured, small, 3s to 4s; large, 6s to 10s; small windfalls, unsaleable. Pears.—Bon Chretien, bushels, 9s to 12s; half-bushels, 4s to 6s. Apricots.—Local, small, 2s to 4s; large, 4s to 7s; southern, 7s to 10s. . Grapes.—Hothouse, lOd to Is 2d a lb; special, slightly higher. Bananas.—Ripe, bushels, 15s to 255, according to quality. Oranges.—Californian, 37s 6d to 455. Lemons.—No. 1 local, 10s to 15s; No. 2, 5s to Bs. FIELD PRODUCE Potatoes.—New, 2s 6d to 4s 6d bag. Onions.—Local, Is 6d to 2s 6d bag. Kumeras.—Tauranga, 8s to 13s cwt. Cabbages.—2s to 6s sack. Cauliflowers.—3s to 6s sack. Pumpkins.—4s 6d to 8s cwt. Swedes.—2s 6d to 3s 6d bag. Green Peas.—4s to 14s bag. Beans. —2l d to 4§d lb. Lettuce. —Is to 3s case. Cucumbers.—Outdoor. 6d to 2s dozen. Vegetable Marrows.—ls to Is 6d dozen. Cabbage.—On benches, Is 6d to 3s dozen. Celery.—ls 6d to 4s bundle. Rhubarb.—ls dozen. Spinnach.—ls dozen. Pumpkins.—3d to Is 6d each. Radish.—6d to Is dozen. Spring Onions.—4d to Is bundle. Carrots, Parsnips, Beet and Turnips.—6d to Is 3d dozen.