FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 19800, 25 February 1928, Page 11

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Bray Bros., Ltd., report as follows for tho week ended to-day:— The chaff' market is quiet. Supplies for the local market have been chiefly coming from Canterbury. Good quality is worth round about £5 10s per ton (sacks extra). There is no alteration in the shipping market. Very little business is passing. New season’s oats are now coming in from Canterbury, where good yields are being obtained. The market at tho opening of the season was firm, hut prices are inclined to weaken. Merchants are not buying in any quantity, as they are unable to find an outlet- A Gartons are now quoted round about 3s 7d, f.0.b., s.i., and B’s 3s 3d. These prices are equivalent to 2s lOd, sacks extra, on trucks, country sidings, for A grade, and 2s 7d for other lines. The wheat market is steady. Consignments are coming forward earlier than anticipated. In the meantime the offerings are chiefly from Canterbury and Otago Central growers. Reports of the market for first lots threshed show that the yields are exceptionally good. Millers are not very keen to operate at present. Tuscan has been offering round about 5s 7d, on trucks, for March delivery, and velvet at 6s 6d. Prices for fowl wheat have eased in sympathy with the low value of milling. The general quotation for prompt shipment in Canterbury is round about 6s per bushel, f.0.b., sacks extra. The Dunedin value is from 6s 6d to 7s. Millers prices aro as follow; Flour: 200’s £l7 10s; 50’s, £lB 15s; 100’s, £lB 10s; 25’s, £l9. Bran : £7. Pollard; £8 10s. Oatmeal: 200’s, £2O; 25’s, £2l. Tho potato market has been well supplied during the past week. Blight has made its appearance in some of tho crops, and growers aro anxious to get their potatoes disposed of as soon as possible. The demand is limited, and the rush of consignments has weakened tho market. Best quality is worth round about £6 per ton. but sales arc slow. The onion market is keeping steady. Fair crops are reported from Canterbury, which are being quoted round about £8 per ton, Canterbury. The local market is bare at present, buyers only ordering small lots, expecting the market to weaken. The weather has been favorable for drying the crops. Business in the fruit marts has been brisk during the week. Stone fruit is still coming forward in large quantities. Plums are now in over-supply, and the second crop of peaches is now' offering. New' season’s pears and apples are coming forward from all the districts, and prices are reasonable. Tomatoes are still maintaining a fair price. Outsidegrown are still late in Canterbury. Large quantities have come forward from the North Island, and these have helped to keep prices down, but the demand is for Canterbury-grown. American oranges arc in over-supply and prices low. Lemons are also offering more freely. Vegetables of all kinds are in full supply. Pens and beans have been bard to sell. Cauliflowers and cabbage have also been offering freely and prices low. Rhubarb has a little demand. The egg market is firm. All lines coming forward are readily placed, and everything points to the market firming. Cheese is offering freely, and the market a little firmer. There is an inquiry for good dairy pat butter. New season’s honey is now coming on the market. Some first-class linos arc offering at 5Jd per !b. Hams and bacon are in good supply. The following prices wore realised during the week; — Apples, 8s 6d to 12s 6d. Apples.—Cooking, 6s to 8s 6d, Section honey, 8s Gd to Hi 9d. Cucumbers.—Local, 5s 4>d to 8s 6d dozen; eases, 2s 6d to 4s. Carrots, 2s Gel to 3s case, Parsnips, 2s. Beetroot, 2s 6d. Lettuce.—Choice. 2s-3s doasn. Cabbage.—Choice, 2s 6d; others, unsaleable. Cauliflowers, 3s to os. Loganberries, 8 dto lOd, Eggs, Is 9d, Is lOd. Raspberries, SJcl to IO.Jd. Butter.—Pats, lid; bulk, Is; factory pats, Is 3d, Is 4d. Peaches. —Crated, 3d to 4|d. Apricots.—Crated, 34d to 4‘]d. Dark plums, 24d to 3ld; extra choice. 6id, Cherry plums.—Choice, to 2Jd; others, Ijd to 1-Jd.

P.ears, 2s 6d to 4s Gd. Honey.—Bulk, 54d; 101 b tins, ss; 21b pottles, Is. Grapes.—Local, to Is lid. Nectarines, 2}d to 4d lb. Broad beans, IRI lb French beans, 14d to 2d. Cucumbers, 2s 6d to 4s Gd rase. Green Peas.—Choice, Hd to 2d; inferior, unsaleable. Peanuts, sd; Brazils, lOd; almonds. lOd. Potatoes, to £6 10s per ton. Pickling onions, lid to 1 Ad. Tomatoes. Nelson, glasshouse, colored, 7s 6d, 9s 6d; Nelson, glasshouse. others, 5s 6d, 6s fid; Christchurch specials, 9d to lOJd; Christchurch mediums, SLI to S|d; locals. lOd to Is 2d. Beeswax.—ls 6d to Is 9d. Cheese.—Mediums, 9jd; loaf, 10Jd. Bacon Pigs.—Prime, 6Jd, 7d; porkers. 7d; heavy-weights. 4(d. Bacon.—Hitchon’s, choice, Is; odd lots, 6d. Hams, Is 3d. Apples.—Otago Central, 8s 6d .to 10s case; Nelson Gravensteins, 8s 6d to Ids. Lemons.—Californian, to 655. Navel Oranges.—Choice, to 37s Gd. Grapefruit, 265. Onions.—Melbourne, 12s 6d cwt. Chicken Food.—Reeve’s, Palmer’s oyster grit, 8s 6d. Fat, 16s to 245. Moose calf meal, 19s 6d. Special quality woodwool, 35s per cwt. Egg crates, 7s Cd to 18s 6d. Fowl wheat, to 7s 6d. Oats.—A Gartons, 3s 6d;T3. Gartons, 3s. Special apple-wrapping paper, 10 s 10. 3s 8d ream. j Oatshenf Chaff.—Choice, to £5 15s. ! Bran, £7; pollard, £8 10s. Strawberry pottles, 60s to 65s per thousand. Strawberry crates, 5s 6d.