FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 4

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are quoted as follow: Apples.—Granny Smith, 7s to 9s 6rl a bushel; cookers. 5s to 7s 6d a bushel; Jonathans. 4s to 7s 6d a‘bushel; Delicious, 5s to 8s 6d ft bushel; Stunners. 4s to 7s 6d a bushel. Passion fruit, choice, 14s to 18s a half-case. Pears, Winter Coles, 10s to 14s 6d a three-quarter case; cookers, 6s to 8s a Ihrec-quarier case. Lemons, choice, 195 to 25n a bushel; others. 10s to 18s 6d a bushel. Poormiin oranges, 7s to 10s a. bushel. Tomatoes: Hothouse, 8d to Is per lb; tree tomatoes, 5s to 7s 6d a half-case. Marrows, 6s to 8s a case. Kumerns, 5s to 8s a sugar-bag. Sprouts, 8s 6d to Ids a bag. New potatoes, Nelson, 2jd (o 3RI pci- lb. Potatoes. 6s to 9s per cwt. Pears, Nelson, Is 3d per lb. Pumpkins. 13s tn 20s a sack. Cauliflowers, 7s to 12s a sack. Cabbage, 5s to 10s 3d a sick. Lettuce, 6s to 17s 6d a banana case. Spinach, 4s 9d to 18s 3d a banana case. Swedes, 2s to 3s 6d a banana case. Carrots, 6s to 8s 6d banana case. Parsnips, 4s to 8s a banana case. Beetroot, Is 6cl to 3s a banana case. Celery. 8k to 16s ft banana, case. Leeks, 4d to 7d a bunch. Cabbage, Is 6rj to 4s 6d a banana case. Onions, 14s to 17s a cental hag. Rhubarb. 8s (o 17s a dozen bunches. Walnuts) 5d to lOd pur ib . Eggs.—A grade, 2s 3d a dozen; medium, 2s 2d a dozen.

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