COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1916, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

I — TH K NfiW '/.E \ LAM") KA Ml- : :•> CO-OPERATIVE DISTIUBUTFNG OOUI'ANY, 1.1 VU'i KIJ T»£jEKJ I a i;pout ■Supplies of southern potatoes are very short and high pi-ic-as arc being maintained. Limited quantities are arriving from Australia and find a ready sale. Wheat and oats are firm at rechmil TaU'.s. i'oliard and bran prices are stationary. Dressed pork i« in C'XMt'iloiit demand. !?gg.s sue not so plentiful as usual for this season of the year, the wholesale prices being maintained at Is 4<l. Spring cabbage is in good demand an ' fair prices are are lioing realized.. Choice cauliflowers have advanced ir price and a good demand exists. Choic* lines of lettuce are selling at satisfactory prices. Sweden are sea ice and hij;]. rates are ruling. Parsnips are selling well at advanced rates. Choice tahle carrots and white turnips are in gone demand. C'elerv. spring onions .itk Iceks are selling freely. The marker is well supplied with rhubarb and .satisfactory prices are being niaintame-l Nelson green peas are coming to hand and meet a good demand at fair prices.

The first, consignments of strawberr!"<- hnvo arrived from Auckland and

realized satisfactory prices. Hutt gooseberries are also coming in and cause keen competition. Desert and "o"k : ng apples arid pears are scarce and lii-'li prices are nil inc. Except in the following instances tlie prices on the first page are unchanged:— ' Fruit.—Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand and hinli prices are ruling. Choice pears arc very scarce and eagerly bought up at high prices. i The alterations in priccs from last 'week are as follow: — Wheat.—Good whole low! 5s 8d Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d htiften sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—-Local arown. 5s per bushel. Oats.—Feed 4s. Spociad quotes for large lots. ■ Partridge Pens. —Seed 7s (id per bus. Oats.—Crushed l.s 4d per husliel. Seed Oate, Australian.—Algerian, dreps'd atul clipped. 5«. oth«r« 4s 3d . Onrtons and Sjiarrow'bilVs, 4s; Duns. 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s fid pet bushel. J!ussi::n Barley. Capo Seed—4s 3d per Iv.ishol. Barley l'Vfd.— fid O'T h'ishel. Bfiilev rnenl. - -/?S 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lota £8. Ricc Pollard £7 per ton ; small lot - £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—C4 15' per ton. Linseed Oil Cake. —Slabs. Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's. 12s; •50's, 6s '"d. Thia is th.> licsi and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, Co 10 to £6 per ton Mollfl.sses.—ln casks. Splendid stock fnor], per Op=k« Straw.—£3 10a per ton.

Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Mpal, 17s per hundred ; 9? per SO. and 5s per 251b hacj. Superphoeph.ites, 10s ppr ton. Candles, 25's 10s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 3d ; '•hpstis. Is Gd to Is IQd lb Potatoes.—£l2 per ton. New potatoes. 2id to 3d per lb. Cabbage.—ss to 6s; medium 3s to Is per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14e to 18s; medium Gs to 10s per sack. Onion?.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Host 10s to 12s- others -js to 8s sack. Rhubarb.—lßs per dozen bunches. Turnips. White 2s Gd to 3s Gd per sack. Lettuce.—4s to 6s per c:isp. Nelson Green Peas.— Od to Is Gd peck. Hutt tomatoes. —9d to Is per lb. Onions. £7 10» t?«m ton. Leeks.—-9d to Is bundle. Spinach. — 3p to -Is. Lettuce—ss to 6s. Spring onione.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s Gd sack. Asparagas. — Is to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10a to 126 pe;- cam. <• Apples.—Dessert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Clioice dessert 12s to 14s per case. „

Lemons—lffe per case. Rhubarb.—los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4<? Gd to 5s Gd liaf case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 80's <H<l in 7d: 90's to 100's 6M to bac.ws fid; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In 60's 6£d to 7d. Esjxs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pi?" dozen. Beeawax.—la fid per lb. Fungus od to Gd per lb. Walnuts —9d per lb. Lin sped Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts. £11 10= per ton of 20001bs. 100's. 12«; 50's, 6e 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poult: v. - T.ijzht inblr ben" 3s to 4s: Heavy b <ns 1- 6d fcn 5s 5d . CnoWels 4s 6d to 58 6d: b*svy Cockerels. 6s to 7s: Good heavy d'Tcki 7s 6<l to Sa 6d; Indian runner* 4« to ffc per pnir; TurUpt cobblers, la tn Is Id per lb; hen? lid, to 1» per lb t'TP wffizM-