Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 January 1914, Page 1

Commercial

THE N.Z. FAIIMEES' Cti-OP-ERATIVJS DISTEIBUTNG CO., LTD. WEEKLY HEPOItT. Wellington, January S. Potatoes are in full supply, and low values are ruling. The Waikato district has tliis year been responsible for the increased quantity. Unions are coming in from Australia and also from Auckland, and present values are bound to decline rapidly. Eggs are in good supply, and price is steady. Pork is in steady demand, with special enquiries for slips, suckers, and light porkers. ■L'miltry is easier in demand since riie holidays. New chaff is now ou the market, but old lines are still enquired for. Crops promise well in most districts, and value this year for chaif is likely 'to be somewhat lower. Oats are unchanged. Wheat is firni, and no appreciable lowering of values is anticipated with the advent of the now crop. Maize is selling , at a reasonable ratq. The strawberry season is now drawing to a close. During the past six weeks we have handled no less that 5500 crates, total net weight 40 tons. Large shipments of stone' fruit arc arriving with low values ruling. Black currants and raspberries are in excellent sale. Tomatoes will rapidly decline in price as supply increases, llhubarb is in poor demand. Peas, beans and cabbages are plentiful with poor prices; carrots and parsnips are in fair demand. Potatoes.--£3 10s to £4 per ton. Cabbage.—Choice Is 0d Ho 2s per sack. Carrots.- Choice' 4s to 5s per sack. Parsnips.—Choice (Js to 7s per sack. Rhubarb.---3s per dozen. Turnips.—White -'is to 4s per sack. Lettuce.—Choice. 3s to 5s per case; others 2s to 2s Gd. Green peas.—Xelson 8s to 5s per bag. Tomatoes.—-Hutt s~d per lb; Xelson -Is to Ts per half case. Beans. -French 2s to 3s part sack. Marrows.--2s 3d to 3s per case. Swedes. 3s fid to -is per cwt. Strawberries Is to Is 3d per 11). Burbank (id to -is (Id per half case. Choice 5s to 5s fid per half case. Blue phiins.— 3s to 3s (Id per half case. Apricots.- Prime 4s to 5s oi hers 2s (id to 3s Id per half case. Peaches.- "is !)d to 3s fid per half case. Black Currants, (is per half en so. i'aspbemies. -5s h\ to (is Oil per bucket. Xectnriuo.s.— 2s (id to 4s per hail' case. ' '. ! Pears.— -Desserl -h io 5s per half ease. Poultry. Hens 3s (id : good table hens Is; heavy cockerels (is; good heavy young (lucks (is (id: Indian Ihi unci's is fltT to 5s per pair: turkey gobblers Is per lb; hens lid per lb live weight. Dressed pnrk.—7o's to 90's sjd In ,V, ! tl: OO's 1o 100's sd: baconors •IJd to l : |d: (hoppers (heavy) 3'd ])er lb. Honey. 3 : ,' dto 4d per lb. Cheese. Best factory mediums I (id per lb. Eggs. Fresh Is Id per dozen. Fungus.—s}d per lb. Walnuts. —7d per lb. Sucroscine. —£7 per ton. Merit and Bone meal. —1.7s per 100; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. . • , Ta,llow.- --/Fine 20s to 25e per •*vt. ....:■• •