PRODUCE MART.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 5

PRODUCE MART.

Range Of Prices At Weekly Auction Sale. Fruit still continues to be very scarce and there was a ready demand for case lots at Messrs. Newton King, Ltd.’s Weekly auction tale yesterday. Prices ranged as follows: Fruit: Pears, 4/6 to 5/6 per halfcase; cooking apples, 4/- to 5/-; dessert apples, 8/6 to 9/6, half-case 4/6 to 5/6; peaches, 6/6 to 9/6 per crate; plums 8/- to per crate; tomatoes, 3/- to 4/- per quarter-case. Vegetables: Pump-kinE' 9/6 per sack; potatoes (local), 9/- cwt.; peas, 1/6 to 2 /- a peck; French beans 6/6 a sugar sack; rhubarb, 4d a bunch. Poultry: Hens, 1/- to 2/-; youiig drakes. 1 , up to 1/3; cockerels, 9d to 1/9; ducks, up to 1/6; young turkey gobblers, up to 4/3; pullets, 6/9 to 7/3. At. the pig sale held at the haymarket there was a large entry and there was keen competition. Pedigree Berkshire boars sold at 4£gns. Other prices were: Good stores up to 36/-, medium 31/-, small 28/-, good weaners up to 16/-, medium 14/-, small and backward 7/6 to 9/-.