COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEK) V .TKT'ORT Wellington. Nov. 3. Supplies of southern potatoes are very short and high prices are being maintained. Limited quantities are arriving from Australia and .find a ready sale. Wheat and oats are firm at receiiit rates. Pollard and bran prices are stationary. Dressed pork is in excellent demand. Eggs are not so plentiful as usual for this season of the year, the wholesale prices being maintained at is 4d.

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 linrh rates are ruling. Parsnips are soli in -j: well at advanced rates. Choice table carrots and white turnips are in good demand. Celery, spring onions nnd leeks are Felling 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 fair prices. The first consignments of strawberries have arrived from Auckland and realized satisfactory prices. Hutt gooseberries are also comma; in and cause keen competition. Desert and cooking apples and pears are scarce and high prices are riding. 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 priccs from last week are as follow:— "Wheat.-—Good whole fowl 5s 8d bus. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat. —Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus. ten sack lota 5s Id. Maize—Local grown. 5s ner bushel. Oats.—Feed -Is. Special quotes for large lots. Partridge Peas. —Seed 7s fid per bus. Oats.—Crushed 4s td per bushel. Seed Oats. Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped. ss, others 4a 3d; Gartens and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dun*, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed. —6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Capo Seed—ls Sd per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lot.s £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; email lots £7 sb. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cako.— Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, 126; SO's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 per ton. Mollasßes.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28e per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tans, 3s par tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5» per 251b bag. Superphosphates, £6 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 6s; medium 3s to 4s per sack. Cauliflower. —Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to 10s pea- sack. Onions.'—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 10s to 12s; others us to 8s sack. Rhubarb.—lßs per dozen bunches. | Turnips. White 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack.

Lettuce. —4s to 6s per cnso. Nelson Green Peas.— 9d to Is Gd I peek. j Hntt tomatoes.— 9d to Is per lb. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks.—9d to Is bundle. Spinach.—3e to 4s. Lettuce—ss to Gs. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s Gd sack. Asparagae.— Is to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3e to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12s per case. Apples.—Dessert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. ' Lemons —16f? per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars -Is Gd to 5s 6d haf case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's 6id to 7d: 90's to 100's 6Jd to 6Jd: baoonors fid; choppers heavy 4d per lb. ir Honey.— In GO's GJd to 7d. lg Egga.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pe

dozen. ISeuawax.— Is 8d per lb. Fungus od to Cd per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. Linseed Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10s per toil of 20001bs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6e 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light table hens 3a to 4s; Heavy hens 4s 6d to 5s 6cl, Cockerels Is 6d to 5s 6d; bea-vy Cockerels, Cs to 7h ; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5s per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hen? lid. to Is per lb iivw wnicht.