FRUIT SCARCITY.
Stratford Mart Sale Business. The fruit losses in Hawkes Bay due to frosts were reflected in the weekly mart sale of Messrs Newton King, Ltd., when offerings in all Classes of fruit, and particularly tomatoes, were exceedingly ligtft. Poultry came forward well. The range of prices was:— Fruit—Apples 5s per half-case, cookers 4/C: cookers 8/6 per bushel; dessert 10/- per bushel: pears 4s to 5s per half-case; tomatoes 4/. to 4/6 per quarter-case. Vegetables—Rhubarb 4/- per dozen bunches; cabbages 2/6 to 4/6 per sack; lettuce, 2/- to 3/6 per crate; pumpkins 9/6 per sack; potatoes 5/per sugar-sack, 9/6 per hundredweight. Poultry.—Hens 1/- to 2/3; guineafowls, 1/-; cockerels, 17- to 1/6; young drakes. 1/5: pullets. 5/9 to 6/6: geese 2/-; gosling 1/P. ducks from 1/3 to 2/-.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 371, 27 February 1937, Page 4
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128FRUIT SCARCITY. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 371, 27 February 1937, Page 4
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