FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. WELLINGTON, This Day. Prices of fruit and vegetables in the Wellington market this week are quoted as follows: — Quinces: 5s to 11s a bushel. Grapes, hothouse. 2s to 2s 5d a lb. Cape gooseberries. 7s to 7s Gd a half case. Passion fruit. 8s to 13s a half case. Tree tomatoes. 9s 9d to 13s Gd a half case. Tomatoes: Hutt, coloured. 2s Gd to 6s a half case; ripe 5s to 10s 3d. Mushrooms. Gd to Is a lb. Potatoes: 5s to 7s Gd a cwt. Onions 10s to 12s Gd a central bag. Kumeras. 10s to 12s 6d a sugar bag. Beans: 12s to 30s a case. Green peas, 12s to 29s Gd a sack. Cucumbers, outside, 10s to 15s a case. Lettuce: Is 6d to 10s 9d a case. Cabbage. Gs 6d to 9s a sack. Pie melons, 5s to 6s a sack. Cauliflowers. 7s to 12s a sack. Silver beet, Gd to 2s a case. Spinach. 4s to 12s 3d a case. Marrows, Is to 2s 6d a case. Pumpkins. 4s to Gs Gd a sack.
Carrots: 2s to 7s a case. Swedes. 2s Gd to 5s 6d a case. Parsnips. 2s Gd to 5s a case. Beetroot, Is to 2s 6d a case. Leeks, 5s 6d to 7s 9d a case. Celery. 2s 6d to 8s a case. Rhubarb, 10s to 17s. a dozen bunches.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400501.2.89.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
236FRUIT AND VEGETABLES Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in