In the Market Place

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 13

In the Market Place

FEW PRICE CHANGES EGGS SHOW SLIGHT DROP Prices at the City Markets in all departments show little change from those of last week. Eggs alone are lower, having dropped a further penny a dozen. C grade hen eggs, a small pullet’s egg, are now coming forward in very small numbers, and will not be listed after a few weeks. Supplies of other grades are moderate and the demand fair. Mandarins and Australian oranges arrived by the Marama this morning qnd will be offered tomorrow. Delicious apples are in poor demand, bLit plentiLul supplies of all varieties are coming in, a fair proportion being from the orchards. Pears are plentiful and prices have not risen. Both supply and quality of hothouse grapes is becoming poor. Choice lemons are meeting with a good demand, and oranges are selling plentifully. Bananas are in short supply, and will be shorter still, no shipment being due until next Monday. Heavy supplies of cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce and celery, and good supplies of other vegetables in season are meeting with a fair demand. The local supply of kumeras is exhausted, and regular quantities are coming from Tauranga. Hothouse cucumbers are now just coming on the market. Quotations: FRUIT Apples.—Delicious, ex cooler, 5s to 7s 6d; Ballarats, 5s lo 7s; Munroes. 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Parlins Beauty, 4s Gd to 5s 6d; Stunners os to 7s Gd; Granny Smith, 6s to 10s; Jonathans, 5s Gd to 7s Gd; Doughertys, 3 s Gd to Gs 6d; Rome Beauty, 5s to 6s; Salome, 5s to 6s 6d. p eai \s —Coles, Gs to Ss 6d; Nellis, 6s Gd to 9s; P. Barrys, 5s to Gs Gd: Buerre Bosce, 4s 6d to 6s. . Tomatoes. —Hothouse, 6d to 10Jd lb; outdoors, 3s to 10s case. Grapes.—Hothouse, most lines wastey. Is to 2s lb; Australian Whites, 21s case. Passion Fruit.—4s to 9s. Lemons. —Choice and No. 1, 1-s to iss, others, 6s to 10s. . , Grape Fruit. —Local, 6s to 7s 6d; special pack, 3 os. „ „ . Poormans. —Small, 3s 6d to 5s 6d; larger, 6s to 7s. Tree Tomatoes. —3s to *s. Oranges.—According to count, 10s 6d to 15s 6d. . o- * « )a . Bananas. —Ripe, No. 1, 2os to ots, mediums, from 225. FIELD PRODUCE Potatoes. —Southern, 6s 6d to 7s ewt. Onions.—ss to 7s cwt. Kumeras. —Tauranga, 9s 6d to 11s cwt; local, 3s to 4s bag. Cabbage.—2s to 7s 6d sack. Cauliflower. —3s to 7s sack. Swedes.—ls Gd to 2s 6d bag. Pumpkins.—3s to 5s cwt. Citron Melons. —14s to 36s cwt. Beans. Hothouse, 9d to Is 3d lb; others, 5s to 10s bag. Lettuce.—ls to 5s case. Cucumbers. —Hothouse. 3s to 5s Gd doz. Vegetable Marrows. —Is 6d to 2s doz. Cabbage.—On benches, 2s to 3s 6d doz. Cauliflower.—On benches.-—2s to 7s doz. Celery.—6d to 2s 6d bundle. Rhubarb.—3s to 4s dozen. Spinach. —Gd to Is dozen. Pumpkins.—On benches. —Gd to 2s each. Radish.—Gd dozen. Spring Onions. —6<l to Is bundle. Carrots, Parsnips, Beet and Turnips.— Sd to Is dozen. Leeks.—3d to Gd bundle. Chokos. —Is to 2s dozen. BUTTER AND CHEESE Merchants report receipt <• ivefceeas cables as follow: —Joseph Nathan and Co. from Trengrous and Nathan. Ltd., London: “Butter, 3 365; white cheese, 755: coloured cheese, 82s; both markets very quiet.”

HOUSEWIFE’S GUIDE First quality hen eggs sold as follow in the City Markets this morning: Special grade, 2s 6d; A grade, 2s 4d; B, 2s 2d, and C, 1s 6d, Duck eggs were: Special, 2s sd; A, 2s 3d; B f 2s 1d r and C, 1s Bd. Farmers’ butter brought 1© to 1s 2d, with factory butter at 1s 2d to 1s 6d in the shops. Over the shop counters, leg of pork sold at 1s 1d; loin, 1s; foreloin with blade, 10d; pork chops, 1s; corned hand, 9d; corned belly, 11d; pork sausages, 8d; leg of mutton, 9d; shoulder, 7d; neck and breast, 6d; forequarters, 6d; hindquarters, 9d; loin, 9d; leg and loin chops, 10d; trimmed cutlets, 1s 1d; sirloin of beef. 9^d; rump steak, 1s 1d; rolled chuck rib, prime rib, topside and flank, 7d; corned round, 7d ; wing rib, B£d; steak, 9d ; suet and sausages, 6d. Trimmed schnapper sold at 7d a lb; terakihi, 6d each; flounder, 8d each; flounder, terakihi and schnapper fillets, four for 1s; moki steaks, 6d a lb; mullet, 6d; local oysters, 1s 6d a bag and 2s a bottle. In the city fruit shops dessert apples sold as follows: Delicious, Jonathan and Sturmers, 4d a lb, slb. for 1s 3d; cookers, 3 and 4lb for 1s; pears, des-sert, Winter Cole, 4d lb; Keefers, 3 and 4lb for 1s; cookers, 3 and 4lb for 1s; passion fruit, 10d to 1s a doz.; Australian white grapes, Bd, 10d and 1s a lb; Gros Colman hothouse grapes, 3s to 4s lb; cape gooseberries-, 8d lb; tree tomatoes, 6d lb; tomatoes, local hothouse, 1s to 1s 4d lb; tomatoes, outdoor, local, 10d to 1s lb; Island, 1s lb; bananas, 5d to 6d lb; Sunkist oranges, 3s 6d to 4s doz; Island oranges, 6, 8 and 10 for 1s; Australian navel oranges, 2s doz; mandarines, 1s to 1s 6d doz;. lemons, local, 6 for 1s; lemons, Sunkist, 2s 6d doz; grapefruit, Sunkist, 6d each, N.Z. grapefruit, 5 for 1s; persimmons, 1s 6d to 2s 6d doz.; pines, 1s 6d to 2s 6d each; piemelon, 2d lb. Potatoes sold at 10 to 121 b fo* 1s; swedes, 4lb for 6d; onions, 1d and Ild a lb; pumpkins, 1d to 2d lb; Brussels sprouts, 1s to 1s 6d lb; beans, outdoor, 10d lb; hothouse, 1s 6d lb; cucumbers, 8d each; celery, 2d to 8d s. ick; lettuce, 2d to 3d each; cauliflower, d to 10d each; cabbage, 3d to 6d each, carrot, parsnip, radish, turnip, beetroot and leek, lod a bunch; marrows, 4d to 8d each; rhubarb, 5d to 6d bundle.

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