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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 October 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

• TFJPTNEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKTY REPORT Wellington, October 6. Southern potatoes are firmer in price since last report, and importations from Australia are now on the market. Wheat remains stationary. Oats are firm at recent rates and not much business doing. There is a good enquiry for maize and the price is unchanged. Pollard and: bran are selling well and recent prices have been maintained. The market is practically bare of dressed pork and a keen demand exists. Supplies of honey are now available and there is a fair demand. Eggs continue to be in excellent demand and prices renvain the same as last week. Linse&cli oil cake meal for stock feeding is being extensively used with satisfactory results. Vegetables.—Spring cabbage is coming in in large quantities and good lines are realizing Pair .prices. Cauliflower are in very short supply and high prices are ruling. Choice letuuce meet ready sale at satisfactory rates. Swedes now show an improved demand. Parsnips, white turnips and table carrots are in short supply and realizing high prices. Celery, spring onions and leeks are selling well. The demand for rhubarb is good; supplies are increasing and satisfactory prices are being realized. Nelson grown peas have been sold in small quantities during the week. Fruit.—Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand and high prices are ruling. Choice pears are very scarce and eagerly bought up at high prices. The alterations in prices from last week are as follow:— Wheat.—Good whole fowl, 5s sdi to 5s 6d per bushel.' Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole.fowl 5s od bus. ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oftts. —3s 9d per bushel. Special quotations for large lots. Partridge Pea Seed—7s per bushel. Oats—Crushed, 4a 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbile, 4s; Dun*, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed. —6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s Sd per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B IDs per toD. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; small lots £7 sa. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£4 15a to £5. * Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10b per ton. IDO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 pei ton. Moliaeses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 6» per 2516 bag. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£9 10s per ton. Cabbage.—Choice 7s to 10s; medium 4s to 4s 6d. Cauliflower Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6a to 10a per sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 9s to 12s; others 4s 6d to 5s 6d Back. Rhubarb.—lßs per dozen bunches. Turnips. White 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—4s to 6s case. Onions, £7 10a per ton. Leeks.—Cd to 8d per bundle. Spinach.—3s to 4a. Beetroot.—ss to 7s 6d per sack. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los" to 15s per sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12s per case. Apples Dessert, choice iOs to 13s. Apples.— Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Dressed Pork.—7o*B to 90's 6ld to 7d: 90's to 100's 6)d to 6{d; Haoonera 6d; choppers heavy id per lb. f Honey.— In 60's 6Jd to 7d. ig Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d

dozen. Uoeawax.—la fid per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—9d per lb. kinaeed Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10s per ton of 20001bs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light table hons to 4s; Ilcnvy hens -4s 6d to 5s 6d v Cockerels 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; h-?ary Cnckoro'p. C«t to 7s; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5a per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hen? lid to 1j jx>r lb 4!T» weighs.