WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 7

WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT.

The New Zealand Farmers' Distributing' Company, Ltd., report as follows .■—Apples still- continue in heavy supsly. Pears are coming forward in fair quantities, but realise good prices. Peaches are particularly wanted at hiuh figures. Large Hutt erapes are in good demand at up to'ls. 3d. per lb. • Tomatoes are much less in- quantity, with considerably better prices. Vegetables continue to.be in good demand, with the exception of marrows aad swedes. Large shipments of potatoes have come forward-during the'last fe* days, and the marhet is weak. Numerous blighted lines still coming to hand. Instead of the usual advance in poultry prices at Easter, the very larco quantities coming' forward weakened the market, and prices are still low. The position in regard to onions is unaltered from last week. Chaff ia in' short supply, and the market is exceedingly firm. Potatoes, best Hutt, special brand £'/, medium £4 10s. to £6 10b.,'others £5 per ton; cabbage, choice 3s. 6d. to 45., ordinary Is. 6d. t<? Us. per sack; green peas, 9d. per peck;'carrots, Hutt, Bd. doz.; turnips, white, 4d. doz.; swedes, Is. 6d. to 2s. per Eack; vegetable marrows, 6d. to Is. per sack (market glutted); ; pumpkins, 3s. to 3s. 9d. saok'lettuce, choice 2a.' 63., fair 6d. to Is. per caee; spinach, best, 2s. 6d. per case; French beans * 3b. to 3s. 6d. por half-sack; cucumbers, outside erown, 6s. per banana Case; broad beans, Id. per lb.; spring onions. Bd. to 9d. doz bundles; tomatoes, round 3s. 6d. to' 45., Hutt 2s.' 6d. io 3s. 6d., Nelson Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per half-case; rhubarb, Is. 6d. doz. bundles; apples, cookers, large 3s. to 3s. 6d., small 2s. 6d. case, . Cox's Orange 7e. 6d., deeeert, well coloured ss. 6d., others. 4s. per case; pears,' dessert 7s cookers, large. 65., small 3s. 6d. per cate; peaches, choice de6sert'7s., medium 4s. to 4s. 6d. per half-caso;! grapes/best Hntt ■Iβ. 3d., Nelson Bd/ per lb.; Cape eoOECberries, 4d. per lb.; radish, 4d. doz. bundles; butter, best separator, printed wrappers 9d.. separator, bulk B!d.to 9d., dairy pats BJd. to 9d.; cheese, best factory mediums 5Jd to 5Jd. per lb., loaf 61d. per lb.; dressed pork 70's to 90's 3Jd., Bp'a to iOO'a 3d., baconers 3d.,'choppers (he&vy) 2d.; eggs, Is. 6d. per doz.; bacon, factory sides 65d., rolls 7JiL hams 7d.per lb.; honey; 60'b. 4d. per lb • beeawax, Is. 4d. to la. Cd.ner lb.: funeun, keen, demand, at 5Jd. per' lb.; walnuts, 5Jd.; tallow, tins, 22s.'owt.; onions, Globes £3 10s. to £4 per ton; poultry, cockerels 6b. 6d, for good birds, small 3s. to 3s. 6d., table roosters'4s., table hens 3s. 6d., small 2s. 6d., duoks, large 65., small 3s. 6d. per pair, turkey gobblers 10d. por lb., hens 9d. per lb. live weight; maize, 4s. per bushel; wheat, 4s. to 4s. 3d. per bushel; barley, feed 3s. per bushel, Cape 3s. to 3s. 6d. per bushel; horse boaas, 4s. 6i. to 4s. 9d. oer bushel; partridgo peas, 6s. per bush o ]- Prussian blue poa-s, ss. 6d. por bushel: b'arloy. meal, special quality, £5 10s. per ton; sharps,' £5 15s. per ton: pollard. £5 10s. per' ton; bran, £4 to £4.105. per ton; chaff, prime oaten sheaf, £5 per ton: hay prime, £3 15s. to £4 per ton; straw,wheaten £2 10s. per ton. oaten £2 7s. 6d. per ton • linseed oil cake, genuine, £13 per ton; oatß, feed 2s. 4d. to 2s. 7d. por bushel, seodj Algerians, sparrowbills, gartons, duns. 2s. 9d. per bushel, crushed 2s. Bd. per bushel; machine-dressed cocksfoot. 6Jtl. to 7d. p«r lb.; farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 6d. per lb.; per. ryegrass, 4s. 6d. to ss, per bushel; talian ryegrass, 4e. 3d. to 4s. 9d. oot bushel. ;