Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1914, Page 1

Commercial

lUE N.Z. FAHMEIiS' CO-OP EEATITE DISTEIBUTNG CO., LTD.

WEEKLY IiEPOItT

Wellington, January 8. Potatoes are in full supply, and low values are ruling'. The Waikato district lias this 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. Poultry is easier in demand since the holidays. .New chaff is now on the market, but old lines are still enquired for. Crops promise well in most districts, and value this year for chaff is likely to be somewhat lower. Oats are unchanged. Wheat is firm, and no appreciable lowering of values is anticipated with the advent; of the liew crop. Maize is selling aj; a reasonable rate. 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 are arriving with low values ruling. Black currants and raspberries are in excellent sale. Tomatoes will rapidly decline in price as supply increases. Rhubarb 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 (id to 2s per sack.. Carrots. Choice 4s to 5s per sack. Parsnips.—Choice (Js to Ts per sack. ' Rhubarb.--3s per dozen. Turnips.-.—White 3s to 4s per sack. Lettuce. —Choice to 5s per case; others 2s to 2s (id. Green peas. —Nelson 3s to 5s per bag. _ Tomatoes.- Hutt od per lb: Nelson 4s to Ts per half case. Beans. 4'reach 2s to 3s part sack. Marrows. 2s 3d to 3s per case. Swedes.--3s (id to -is per owt. Strawberries Is to Is 3d per lb. Burbauk plums.—_2s (id to 3s (id per half case. Choice 5s to 5s (id per half case. Blue plums. - 3s to 3s (jd per half case. Apricots.- -Prime 4s to 5s others 2s (id to :>s od per half case. Peaches.- Is 9d to 3s (id per half case. Black Currants.-; (is per half case. Ilaspberrries. to (is (id per bucket. Nectarines. 2s (id to Is per hair . 1 IIPea vs. —Dessert •>>•. io'iis per IniJl case. Poultrv. Hens 3s (id: good table hens -Is: heavy cockerels ('is: good heavy voting ducks (is (>d : India n Kmi tiers Is ffiT it. 5s per pa if" turkey gobblers Is per Jo. hens' lid per'lb live weight. Dressed pork.- -.0 s to !)() s -). t d In 5 : / d; 00's to 100's 5d : baconers Ijd to choppers (heavy.) per lb. ~ 11 one v. 3'Vl to -1,1 per 11) Cheese. Bost factory mediums (id pei - lb. 'Eggs. Fresh Is Id per (10/.en. Fungus.—s;jd pei" JhWalnuts. —7(1 per lb. Surroscine,—£7 per ton. Meat and Bone meal. -I'M?™* 100; 9s per 50, and 5s per 2-)lb bag. Tallow, '''ins 20s to per