In the Market Place

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 10

In the Market Place

BANANAS ARRIVE POOR APPLES AND PEARS Inferior apples and pears are oversupplied on the City Markets. Large quantities of all grades are coming forward, but buyers’ attenion is principally confined to the better lines. Good Louis Bon pears are selling i under a fair inquiry, and good lines j of apples are maintaining last week’s j rates. \ A small shipment of bananas —for j this tim€> of the year—came by the j Tofua from Suva this morning. It is expected that the supply will be bought up quickly. Banana prices .have been firming gradually in the past week or so. Plums, apart from occasional lines, are finished. Hothouse grapes are plentifully supplied. Tomatoes are not so plentiful as last week and supplies from the South notably Hutt. have been reduced. Prices are higher. Potatoes, onions, kumeras, cabbages and lettuces are especially heavily supplied in the vegetable auctions. Most vegetables in season are well stocked and clearances are by no means brisk. Quotations: FRUIT Pears. —Louis Bons, 6s to Ss 6d; other varieties, 2s 6d to ss. Apples.—Cox’s Orange, choice, 6s 6d to 9s; Gravensteins, 5s to 7s; Gravensteins, medium and small, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Delicious, choice, 5s to 7s; cookers and others, 2s to 4s 3d. Tomatoes. —No. 1,4 s to 5s 6d; smooth, 4s 6d to 7s; small and medium. 2s to 3s. Peaches.—Choice, coloured, 6s to Ss; cooking and others, 2s td 3s 6d. Grapes.—Hamburg, lOd to Is 4d a lb: Hamburg No. 2, 6£d to 9d; Gros Colman, Is 2d to Is lOd; Alicante, Is to Is 2d; Golden Queen, Is; Te Kauwhata (outdoor), 9s to 13s a crate. Cape Gooseberries.—4*d to syd a lb. Lemons.—7s to 15s 6d a case. Passions.—3s to 5s a case. Oranges.—3os to 425. Bananas.—No. 3,23 s to 26s a bushel; medium, 20s to 23s 3d a bushel; No. 2, 10s 6d to 12s 6d a bushel. FIELD PRODUCE Potatoes. —3s to 4s 6d a bag. Onions. —Is 6d to 2s 3d a bag. Kumaras.—3s a bag, or 2d to 2id foe 21b. Cabbages.—ls to 2s 6d a sack. Cauliflower.—3s to 7s 6d a sack. Swedes.—ls to 2s a bag. Pumpkins.—3s to 5s a cwt. Green Peas.—3s to 6s 6d a bag. ! Beans.—2s to 4s 6d a bag. Lettuce.—ls to 3s a case. Cucumbers.—2s to 7s 6d a dozen. Vegetable Marrows.—ls to Is 6d a dozen. Water Melons.—2s to 3s 9d each. Rock Melons.—3d to Is 4d each. Cabbages.—On benches: Is to Is 6d a dozen. Celery.—ls to 3s 6d a bundle. Rhubai'b.—ls a dozen. Spinach.—ls a dozen. Pumpkins.—3d to Is each. Radish.—6d to Is a dozen. Spring Onions.—Gd to Is a bundle. Carrots, Parsnips, Beet and Turnips.— Gd to lOd a dozen.