COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1905, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKETS. L The local fruit and produce market* have been heavily supplied during ths past week. The most noticeable change i£ the heavy drop in the price of potatoes', due to the numerous small shipments from all parts, and the majority being diseased could not be held over. Onions are firm at £.3 10/ to £0 ton. In dairy produce price* of butter, cheese, bacon, and hams ara unchanged, whilst eggs are scarcer at higher prices. Fruit been in heavy supply, and higher prices than last week ruled throughout. Plums were in short supply. Poultry was in heavy supply, but the demand was very dull, and lower prices ruled than daring the past three years. The following, were the ruling prices at the auction sales on Friday:— Field Produce.—Potatoes, snperior Tip-' to-D_te (for e_port). £S to £°- ton; odd lots, £7 to £7 2/6: unmatured lots of various descriptions, £3 10/ to £5: damaged and inferior, £1 5/ to £2 10/. Onions, local, 8/6 to 9/6 cwt: pieklers, lid to lid lb; chaff, local. £4 10/ ton; Southern, £3 10/. Dairy Produce.—Dairy and separator butter. ,6d to 9d lb; pastry, 5d to 6d; farmers' keg. firsts. 5d to 6d; seconds, sd; milled in bulk, for export. Sid; eggs, fresh. 1/2 to X/ 5& dozen: pickled. Sd; cheese, farmers'. 3d to 4d lb: factory, 4Jd to sd: loaf c :__; bacon, farmers', old; factory, 3d t_ 6d: hams, factory, 7d to 7*d; factory, 7d t« Fruit (all quotations per bushel case, except where otherwise specified).—Apples. local Gravenstein, 5/ to 7/; other dessert sorts, 4/ to 6/: cooking, first grade, 3/ t« 3/6; others, 2/0 to 2/6; pears, Bon Chretien, 8/ to 11/: others, dessert. 2/ to 5/; cooking. 4/ to 5/: plums, English varieties?. 3/6 to 6/3: others, 3/6 to 5/; peaches, coloured, 3/6 to 7/3; others, 3/6 to 5/; grapes, hothouse, 6d to IOJd lb: tomatoes,' 1/3 to 3/ box; oranges. Island, 6/ to 8/ case: lemons, local, prime. 5/ to 6/; rough and coarse, 2/ to 4/; quinces, 2/6 to 3/; passion fruit local, 7/ to 8/ ease; Sydney, 3/9 to 4/; watermelons, Sydney, 35/ to 20/ dozen; nectarines, local, 5/ to 7/ box* bananas, 1/6 to 2/3 bunch, 1/ to 3/9 ease: pires, Queensland. 67 to 7/3 case. . * Poultry.—Hens. 1/ to 1/6 each: tab _ roosters 1/4 to 1/9; cockerels, 9d to 1/3: ducks, 1/ to 1/5; geese. 2/6 to 3/: chicks, o_ lo 1/; turkeys, gobblers, 4/ to 7/, hens 3/ to 5/.

•./ I i P J . J ", J - on€s reports:—Poultry: Roosters, Vo, '5 %_ : cocks ' 1/S t0 V*' chtekß, 6d te 10d; ducks. 1/1 to 1/5; hens, 1/2 to 1/7tnrkeys—gobblers 6/9 to 10/; hens, 3/3 to 4/6; geese, 3/6; pigs, small 5/ to 8/, others -& \° i S /' B/6 to 7/6; Inferior, »/9 to 6/: onions, £S: garlic. 2d; cabbages. V to 1/6 sact. Prnit: Apples. 1/6 to 4/6 ease; ebon;*, up to 6/6: lemons. 4/ to 4/6ptams, 4/e to 6/B; peaches, 3/6 to 6/6; pears. 4/ to 7/; nectarines, 6/ to 7/; nectarines, 8/ to 9/G; tomatoes, 2/6 to 3/63/3; wtoeat, 3/11: oats,' 2/3; sSei^ £6 »/• bran, £ 4; cllaffi local £4 goutll . H\ -^i 57',.7 '~ Bacon - sides - Mto lii. ham, 8d to Sd; batter, box 62d to 7d, keg 64d to<d lb. In pats 7d to Sd; honey, 3/9 to 4/3 dozen; eggs. 1/ to 1/1.