COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED.

WEEK) I aY;->PVT Wellington, Nov. 3. Supplies of southern potatoes are very sliort and higli prices are being maintained. Limited quantities are arriving from Australia and find a ready sale. Wheat and oats are firm at recent rates. Pollard and bran prices are stationary. Dressed pork i« in excellent demand. Eggs are not so plentiful as usual for this season ot the ■ year, the wholesale prices being maintained at 'Is 4<l.

Spring cabbage is in good demand and fair, prices are are being realized. Choice cauliflowers have advanced in price and a good demand exists. Choice lines of lettuce are selling at satisfactory prices. Swedes are scarce and lush rates are ruling. Parsnips are seilincr well at advanced rates. Choice table carrots and white turnips are ill good demand. Celery, spring onions and leeks are selling freely. The market is well supplied with rhubarb and satisfactory prices are being maintained. Nelson green peas are coming to hand and meet a good demand at fail' priccs. The first consignments of strawberries have arrived from Auckland and realized satisfactory prices. Hutt gooseberries are also coming in and cause keen competition. Desert and cooking apples and pears are scarce and high prices are ruling. * Except in the following instances the prices on the first page are unchanged :— 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 os 8d bus. Aspiaragus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus. ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oats.—Feed 4s. Speciad quotes for large lots. Partridge Peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bus. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duna, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed. —6s 6d pel bushel. Russian Barley, Capo Seed—4s Sd per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per buebel. Barley meal.—£s 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; small lots £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. lOO's, 12s; 53's, 6a 6d. Thia is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £8 per ton. Mollaaies.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per ton. Quicklime.- —In 231b air-tight tins, 3s I per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Superphosphates, dBB 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d- per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d; chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£l2 per ton. New potatoes. 2Jd to 3d per lb. ' Cabbage.—ss to 1 6s; medium 3s to 4s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to 10s per sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 10s to 12s; others 5s to 8s sack. Rhubarb. —18s per dozen bunches. Turnips. White 2s 6d to 3s 6d pei sack. Lettuce.—4s to 6s per case.

■Nelson Green Peas.— 9d to Is Gel peck. Hutt tomatoes. —9d to Is per lbOnions, £7 1Q» per ton. Leeks.—9d. to Is bundle. Spinach.—Bs to 4s. Lettuce—os to Gs. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagae.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per Back. Apples—Dessert,, choice, 10s to 12e per daee. Apples.—Deesert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons —16s per case. Rhubarb. —'10s to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. . Dreased Pork.-70's to 80's 6Jd to 7d; 00'b to 100' a 6Jd to 6|di; baooners 6d; choppers heavy 4d per lbHoney.— In 60's 6}<3 to 7d. mjTgw.— Freah le 3d to 1b 4d pe r

dozen. Ueeawax.—la 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to Gd per lb. Walnuts.—Bd per lb. Linseed OU Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10s per ton of 20001bs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6e 6d. This is -the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to 4s; Heavy hens 4s 6d to 5s 6d ,• Cockerels 4s 6d to 5s 6d; heavy Cockerels, 6s to 7a; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5s por pair; Turkey gobblers, la to Is Id per lb; hen? lid to la per lb iivo wfiiacht.