MARKET REPORT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 8

MARKET REPORT.

Shipments of New South Wales and Victorian-grown fruit are coming to handmore freeiy than last week "and meeting a very good demand at the Blair and Allen Street markets. The usual shipment of about 4000 cases of Fiji.bananas is also to hand, but values are low when compared -frith last months values. Small quantities of Island oranges are still on hand, tho yales being very slow. Supplies of local-grown pears and apples have been better this week than , for some time past, but values still, show, a ■ hardening tendency. Vegetables of all kinds are in good supply, with cauliflowers realising very high values. Fresh and preserved eggs are wnnted, with values as last-re-ported. Potatocg and' Onions'are unchanged. Yesterday's approximate values were:—lsland oranges, Gs. case; Fiji bananas, Gs. to 9s, case; pineapples, 9s. to 10s.; quc-en pines, 10s. to .lls.; grapes, Is. 3d. to Is. sd. lb.; passion fiuit, 7s. to 95.-Gd. per quarter-case; persimmons, 2s, Gd. to 2s. 9(1. per quarter-case; tomatoes, choice round, 10s. to 13s. Gd. per halfcase; do., outside, 4s. to 9s. per half-case; seconds, Is. Gd. to 2s. per hnlf-case; Messina lemons, 15s. per case; Mildura lemons, 14s. per/wise; apples, Jonathans Gs. to 8=9(1., Stunner ss. Gd. tnGs. 9d..'Gronby Seedlings Gs. to Gs. Gd., Cambridge Pippins ss. to Gs., May Pippins 3s. 6(1. to 45., Rymer ss. to ss. 9(1., Dougherty 7s. to 9s. Gd., Horn ss. to" ss. Gd., Corncluster 4s. Gd. to ss. 3(1., Cliff's Nonsuch ss. to (K, Commerce 6s. fid. 'to 75.. Alfriston ss. Gd. tfl'Gs:, Lord M'olseley ss. 3d. to Gs. 3d., Washington ss. Gd. to Gs. Gd., Mnnroe's Favourite ss. to Gs. 3d., Fpps Seedling 4s. Gd. to ss. Cleopatra ss. to Gs., Nonpar if! Russets Gs. to 75.. Baldwin ss. 3d. to ss. 9d„ all at per case values according to sample; pears, Josephine 12*. to 155., Faster Beurre 7s. to 7s. Gd.. Winter Cole ins. ,tn 125., Winter Nelis 10s. Gd. to 12s. Gd., Vicar of Wakefield 6v to Cs. Gd., L'lnconnen 10s. to lis., Glou Moreen So. to 95., all at per case, values according to sample., '. , ...

Choice savoy cabbage, Gs. to 7s. Gil. per Rac,k;.secauds r ,2s. to ss. per sack; Drumheads, 4=..;fKljjHo ss. 3d. per sack: cauliflower, olioicei white. 12s. to Ws. Gd. per sack; oilier?, 9s. lo 10s. per sack; seconds, 4s. to ss. per..sack; carrots, 2s. Gd. to 3s. per sack; pai'snins, 3s. 9d. to ss. 3d. per sack; beetroot, 2s. Gd. to 3s. per sack; pumpkins, 3s. Gd. to ss. Gd. per sank; vegetable mallows. 2s. (o 2s 9d. per snclvi French bennsr 7W. per lb.; white , inf. nips,-Is. &!£%' 2s. ner sack; swede tur» nips. 2s. 3d. to 2s. Gd. per rase; celery. 2s. to Gs. ner ddsscn: leeks. .4(1. to Sd. ret <',07, en: radish, Gd. to 8(1. per dozen; I'ittnce. 15.,Gd.40 2s. 6(1. per case; spinath. Is. Gd. lo Ss.'JSer mse; artichokes,. .4?.. to' s*. per sack 'JH 125.. Gd. lo ,£-t 15s. per ton; onions. ,C 5 lfls. to „GG per ton; fresh eggs. Is. 10<1. per dozen; preserved do., Is! fid. per dozen. Don't (leeidc upon that, new Oil Engine without' seeiiife a "Richmond." Apirt from its manv exclusive 'mints of excellence, the fact that the "Richmond ga-'ji-prl the highest, award in onen comp"tition at Ihe • International Show should induce you to get particulars from A. J. Parton, Plumber, Carterton.—Advt.