COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

« THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Welkin gton, May a. Potatoes are steady at recent Wheat and oats are stationary, and a fair demand exists. Poliard is scarce and prices are firmer. Chaff is still selling well at recent rates. Pork is in very good demand, and larger'-sup-plies can be dealt with. Sucking pigs hare been arriving in large numbsrs, and as the demand is limited, prices will suffer a big drop if the aapp'iy continues or increases. Honey is wanted. Molasses for stock feeding i 8 in good demand owing to the shortage. Cabbage is {etching high prices and supplies are limited. Choice cauliflowers are in short supply and realizing high prices far well packed fines. A good demand exists for choice 'ettuce. but inferior lines are hard to quit. Very few swedes are offering, and high rates are ruling. Parsnips are in good demand andir fai prices are realized. Carrots and white turnips are in good demand. Marrow and pumpkins are arriving in large quantities and prices are Sower. Spring onions, leeks and celery are in good supply. French beans are keenly bid for and bring high prices. Hutt tomatoes are realizing Jiigh prices and only small parcels are arriving. Choioe dessert apples and pears are keenly sought tor, and ' igh prices are ruling. Walnuts and chestnuts are enquired for. Wheat.—Good whole I owl 5s 6d bus. 10-sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—ss 6di per bushel; beet imported 5s i)d. Oats.—Feed 3s Cd per bushel. Oats.—Crushed .33 lOd per bushel. Seed oats.—(Australian), Algerians dressed and ciippedi ss; Gartons ana bpar row bills 4s; Duns 4s t>d pei- bushel. Russian Cape seed barley.— 4s tjd per bushel. Barley, Cape feed.—4a 3d. .Barley meal.— £i) 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 16s Rice poilard.—£7 IDs. .bran—£4 15a. Linseed oil cake.—Meal and nuts, genuine, 14s cwt; ton lots £13 10s. Chuii'.—Oaten sheaf £5 10s to i'O per ton. Molasses.—ln casks, 28s per scwt. ►Sucrosine— £8 10s per ton. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b tins '3s per tin. Potatoes.—£(i 10s to £8 per ton. Cabbage.—Choice spring 12s to lis, medium 4s ud to as 6d per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 15s; ineiium 8s to 10s per sack. Carrots.—6s to 8s for best; otherß 4s to 5s sack. Onions— £5 per ton. Turnips.—White 4s to 6s per sactt. Leeks.—4d to 6d per oundle. Lettuce.—ss 6d to 6s od per case. Spinach—3b to 4s per case. Beetroot. —3s to 4s per sack. Spring onions.— 3d to 6d bunch. French beans.—3d to 4d per lb. Marrows.—2s to 3s per case. Swedes 4s 6d to 5s 6d per cwt. Pumpkins.—7s to 8e per sack. Apples.-—Choice dessert 7s to 8s 6d. Apples.—Cooking 3s to 4s case. Pears. —Ohoice dessert 9s to 10s per case. Tomatoes.— Hutt 9s to 10s per ease. Lemons.—3ss case. Passions.—6s per half case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's 6|d to 6|di; 90's to 100's 6d; baooners ojd; choppers (heavy) did to 4d per lb. Honey.—ln 60's 5Jd per lb. Honey sections.—Bs per dosen. Eggs.—2s 0d per dosen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. to 7d per 18. "Walnuts.—Bd to 9d per lb. Poultry —Light table hens 3s to 3s 6d; heavy hens 4s to ss; cockerels Ss to' 4s; heavy cockerels 5s to 6s; heavy ducks fls 6d to 7s 6d; Indian Runners 3v 6d to 4b 6d per pair; turkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb. hens lid to lc per lb live weight.